Week 6 Discussion
Please respond to the following, using the resources in this week’s Learn and those below as the basis for your response.
- Select two paintings depicting females, one by a male artist and one by a female artist from those named in the Resources that follow.
- Compare and contrast these two depictions of women and comment on any general tendencies that you detect among artists of that era in this respect.
- Compare this situation in the late 1800s to the way females are depicted in our own modern times, using at least one specific modern example.
Resources
Artists Depictions of Women
- Chapters 31 and 32, depictions of women by male artists Manet, Degas, Dewing, and Eakins, and by female artists Cassatt, Morisot, and Sara M. Peale.
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https://www.nga.gov/collection/artists.html?pageNumber=1
