Gender Roles In Modern Painting
Genders Role in Modern Paintings
I believe that gender role in modern paintings is varied. it was very difficult for women to enter the academy and achieve recognition as artists during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. At the same time, gender played a key role in many of the movements we've discussed in class. Each movement has its own characteristics and values with regards to gender. Both women and men were shown as rough and strong but also shown as weak or beautiful.
In neoclassicism, women are shown as weak figures and have nothing to do in this world but to follow their men like in the “Oath of The Horatti” by Jacques-Louis David. Men are represented as strength and power, and women are presented as weakness. They have to accept whatever the outcome of the conflict is; in anyway they’re either losing a brother or a husband. In another painting by David “Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of the Dead Sons” shows Brutus on the left side of the painting. He was the strong man that lead the revolution against the kings and on the other side his weak wife that can’t do anything. This fits in ideas which were around during that time and those ideas were only men can sacrifice to the state because only men can overcome their emotions. On …show more content…
This shows the strength of women over men. But in other paintings women are shown as beautiful and emotional. Like in Eugene Delacroix’s painting “Women of Algiers in their Room” women are shown as those beautiful creatures with jewelry and fancy clothing and smoking hookah. But other painter insisted on showing women’s strength and ability like in “the 28th of July: Liberty Leading people” the woman is the center of the peace and have a great role that is she is carrying the tri-color flag that represents equality, liberty and
I believe that gender role in modern paintings is varied. it was very difficult for women to enter the academy and achieve recognition as artists during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. At the same time, gender played a key role in many of the movements we've discussed in class. Each movement has its own characteristics and values with regards to gender. Both women and men were shown as rough and strong but also shown as weak or beautiful.
In neoclassicism, women are shown as weak figures and have nothing to do in this world but to follow their men like in the “Oath of The Horatti” by Jacques-Louis David. Men are represented as strength and power, and women are presented as weakness. They have to accept whatever the outcome of the conflict is; in anyway they’re either losing a brother or a husband. In another painting by David “Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of the Dead Sons” shows Brutus on the left side of the painting. He was the strong man that lead the revolution against the kings and on the other side his weak wife that can’t do anything. This fits in ideas which were around during that time and those ideas were only men can sacrifice to the state because only men can overcome their emotions. On …show more content…
This shows the strength of women over men. But in other paintings women are shown as beautiful and emotional. Like in Eugene Delacroix’s painting “Women of Algiers in their Room” women are shown as those beautiful creatures with jewelry and fancy clothing and smoking hookah. But other painter insisted on showing women’s strength and ability like in “the 28th of July: Liberty Leading people” the woman is the center of the peace and have a great role that is she is carrying the tri-color flag that represents equality, liberty and