Discussion

Choose from the following, one male and one female artist: depictions of women by male artists Manet, Degas, Dewing, Eakins and by female artists Cassatt, Morisot, Haudecort-Lescot, Sara M. Peale

In at least 150 words (paragraph form), select two (2) paintings depicting females by both a male artist and female artist named above. Compare and contrast these two (2) depictions of women, and comment on any general tendencies that you detect among artists of that era in this respect. Then compare this situation in the late 1800s to the way females are depicted in our own modern times, using at least one (1) specific modern example.