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Uses ideal women and displays gender roles through dress, positioning, and interactions.

The idealization is oddly less apparent in this image, and it is very clearly shown. We can see her applied hobbies as well as interest intertwined in her character so that we can see beyond the character of sharp pastels and caked makeup.

Jean Siméon Chardin, The Attentive Nurse, 1747, Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art

This piece demonstrates the idea that women are more than just a pretty visual/object. The young girl reading exemplifies how women are capable of much more. It is considered different for its time period considering the manner in which women were…

This piece was interesting for exploring how the Barbie/pink theme changes when the women depicted are just concepts, not real models. The painting shows naturalism vs. realism in using idealized models of what women should look like, like the…

I think this painting has a lot of themes relating to femininity, the idealized depiction of women, and the frivolous pink theme we were aiming for.