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Painted Ladies in the Lower Haight, San Francisco, California. During World War I and World War II many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. [citation needed] Another sixteen thousand were demolished. Many others had the Victorian décor stripped off or covered with tarpaper, brick, stucco, or aluminum siding.
The display of this painting among African tribal masks was intended to correlate the masks as the inspiration for the features Picasso painted on the women in Les Demoiselles. [75] The exhibition's catalogue states that the pejorative ethnographic and political connotations of 'primitivism' were not the lens of the exhibition's curation.
Painted lady or painted ladies (or capitalised versions) may refer to: Animals. Any species of the Cynthia group of butterflies in the genus Vanessa, e.g. more ...
Painted Lady is a 1997 murder mystery drama starring Helen Mirren, involving art theft. It co-starred Franco Nero, Karl Geary and Iain Glen, and was directed by Julian Jarrold. The role was created specifically for Mirren, as a means for her to try something a bit different from her Inspector Tennison character on the popular Prime Suspect series.
Painted Ladies, first published in 2010, is the 39th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Spenser investigates the theft of a famous painting from the Hammond Museum . [ 1 ]
Men and Marriage, Michael Joseph, London, 1970 ISBN 978-0-7181-0367-5; Dolly on the dais: the artist's model in perspective Gentry Books, 1972. ISBN 0-85614-006-6; Painted ladies; models of the great artists, Stein and Day, New Youk, 1972, ISBN 0-8128-1472-X
That the gaze dehumanizes women into objects of desire is a psychological component of male and female sexuality in Western culture; [33] thus, "men do not simply look; [but] their gaze carries with it the power of action and of possession, which is lacking in the female gaze. Women receive and return a gaze, but cannot act upon it."
Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement) is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. Delacroix's first version of Women of Algiers was painted in Paris in 1834 and is located in the Louvre , Paris, France.