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Woman Drinking Absinthe

“Woman Drinking Absinthe,” Van Dongen’s Allegorical Satire on Parisian Society. The reputation of Paris as a leading center of important economic, socio-political and cultural changes was already well established in European social circles at the beginning of the twenty-century. The booming industrialization inspired various economic activities in every aspects of human existence. The market for the...

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The Adoration or Perversity of Childhood in Balthus’s Paintings

The Adoration or Perversity of Childhood in Balthus’s Paintings. Before the concept of Childhood began to take shape during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the concept of the Child had many symbolic connotations in the popular imagery through the history of art. In a general context, the child symbolizes the new beginning, as for example the New Year, or innocence, naivety and a precious gift....

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Artemisia Gentileschi: Quest for Artistic Glory

Artemisia Gentileschi: Female Quest for Artistic Glory or Personal Vengeance. The scholarly world of the art history critics projects many conflicting theories when referring to the Artemisia Gentileschi’s artwork. The omnipresent argument surfacing every time is that her art is motivated mostly by the trauma of her personal experiences as a female exposed to the Patriarchal system of her...

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The Evolution of Innovatory Approaches

The Evolution of Innovatory Approaches in Critical Statements of the Female Art through the Chosen Artworks of Artemisia Gentileschi, Judy Chicago, and Laurie Anderson. In the history of art, women have always been presented in many forms of artistic creativity, basically as models of symbolic artistic inspiration, beginning as early as the Paleolithic period with the sculpture of the Venus of Willendorf,...

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The Representation of the Female Body in Newton’s Picture

The Representation of the Female Body in Newton’s Picture. Through the history of photography the woman body always was and still is one of the leading subject of various and quiet often-questionable representations. Since the early beginning of the photographic revolution, women as models have been in the center of attention to catch the “still life.” The phallic social order created a vast...