It's easy for people to roll their eyes at selfies and make jokes about girls who just want attention, but the truth is that for lots of women —
especially women of colour, trans women, disabled women and all the other women who see their existences erased in mainstream media — posting pictures of themselves is a way of challenging our culture's narrow beauty standards.
Not exact matches
Red
colour is a symbol
of Valentine's Day, besides,
woman in red always looks
especially sexy.
«A lot
of women of colour were being overlooked, they were being excluded from a lot
of paid positions
especially,» she says.
«No one expects a
woman of colour in her 40s to have a little surge in her career —
especially in Hollywood, which is such a chew - you - up, spit - you - out industry.»
Yet even in those paintings which flatter,
especially those
of women, their boldly
coloured, enticing lips dangle question marks about their integrity.
Note: Abstract Expressionism refers in general to those artists who were working in New York in the 1950s, even if their work was not
especially expressionist or abstract: so it encompassed Mark Rothko, and his
Colour Field Painting, as well as the gesturalism
of Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97) and his
Woman series.
The patronage
of Saidie Alder May (d 1951), a wealthy
woman whom he met in 1927 as a fellow student
of Hofmann, made it possible for him to dedicate himself to the study
of colour theory (
especially that
of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Mayan and Inca cultures, science, mathematics and philosophy.