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Catherine Opie The Ambassadors Analysis
Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait / Cutting, 1993 piece and Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533 piece are similar in the way that both portraits are showing aspects of people’s lives. In Hans piece he is showing the life of two rich and smart men. Jean de Dinteville ambassador, and Georges de Selve a bishop. In the piece you also see a globe, sundial, other things to tell time, and instruments. This makes me think this could be showing a struggle with religion because a bishop is someone who keeps order in Christianity, and sciences such as time and if the world is flat wasn’t a Godly idea. In Catherine’s work she is showing a landscape and two women who live together. This is a reflection of her own life that she had someone cut on her back.
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