La Gitana, Louis Kronberg
The female subject is presented in a very casual setting. She is in regular, everyday clothing and is engaged in immense thought.
This is a positive portrayal of a minority, Romani woman. Her people have gone through immense persecution and a portrayal like this is surprising.
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Paul Gauguin
Women are used as symbols for the answers posed by the title of this work.
Nudity is prevalent as in many other works showing women. One such pairing of women (top right) is depicted as gossips.
This has an unequal power structure due to Gauguin's identity and the identity of his subjects. The artist is a white, French man painting nude Tahitian women, an island that had been colonized by the French.
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