” Women in Art” Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response. Initial post response needs to be at least 125 words and students are also required to make a substantive response to their classmates.What does the Kate Chopin reading entitled, Story of an Hour (located in the link below) and The Awakening (attached below) indicate about the conflict between societal expectations of women and the things women wanted for themselves. Be specific and provide examples from both works. After reviewing the paintings located in the Explore section, select two (2) paintings depicting females by both a male artist and female artist. 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. Indicate whether or not these tendencies reinforce or contradict the image of womanhood as portrayed in the Chopin story. Compare these depictions of women in the late 1800s to the way females are depicted in our own modern times, using at least one (1) specific modern example.Explore:Artists’ Depictions of WomenChapters 31 and 32, depictions of women by male artists Manet, Degas, Dewing, Eakins and by female artists Cassatt, Morisot, Haudecort-Lescot, Sara M. PealeNational Museum of Women in the Arts at http://www.nmwa.org/explore/collection-highlights/18th%E2%80%9319th-centuryNational Gallery of Art (search by artist name) at http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artists.html?pageNumber=1Story of an Hour http://my.hrw.com/support/hos/hostpdf/host_text_219.pdf
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