Sentences with phrase «depiction of women and children»

The exhibition includes landscapes, portraits, intimate depictions of women and children, and images of modern life in American cities, which together generate dialogues about techniques, composition, and subject matter.

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The culture in which our children are growing up still has a long way to go when it comes to the representation, depiction and role - modelling of women.
I know that the world of recent childrens literature is a bright and shiny place, filled with anthropomorphically correct villages full of nearly endangered species, politically correct messages, psychologically correct relationships, aesthetically correct illustrations and, for all I know, anatomically correct depictions of the three little pigs, the gingerbread man and an unedited but airbrushed centerfold of the old woman who lived in the shoe.
WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE More than 80 oil paintings and pastels are included in this major survey of William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916), the American Impressionist best known for his depictions of landscapes, urban parks, women and children.
Among Parks» works referenced are: Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948, portraying gang members fighting (from Parks» first assignment with Life «The Making of An Argument: A Harlem Gang Leader» 1948); Untitled, Alabama, 1956, depicting children playing with guns; Boy with June Bug, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1963; Ethel Sharrieff, Chicago, Illinois, 1963, a striking formation of women in hijab; and depictions of Nation of Islam members practicing self defense.
Painted in the technique of chiaroscuro, her intense but tender gaze is inspired by historical depictions, drawing influence from Caravaggio, Gustave Courbet's «Woman with a Parrot» (1866), and the iconography of medieval Madonna and Child.
Artifacts range from a wooden fire pump to bamboo skis; paintings and prints show a cyclone and women making silk; and mannequins pose in reconstructed workshops and tiny houses — one contains a tasteful depiction of childbirth, with a midwife in attendance and the older children looking on.
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