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A 5 page research paper focusing on how women are portrayed in 18th century art. The paper focuses on Fragonard and Goya. Substantial background is given on these artists and consequently how women are viewed in their works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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sexism as seen in the works of Goya. This paper will concentrate on the portrayal of women by 18th Century painters such as Fragonard, Goya
and Hogarth. In the frivolous 18th-Century Age of Rococo, which some have said to be a feminist style because of the use of curved lines,
18th Century artistic fantasy saw woman as a creature as unreal as a modern Barbie doll. Woman was portrayed as either a goddess of the highest moral virtue
who looked sexy, or as a sex object who looked innocent. There was another viewpoint which appeared later, however, as the 18th Century also saw
the dawn of the Enlightenment. Thinkers tried to make sense of the animal also known as the human being. A few artists even had the objectivity to demand
that woman was a fully realized, flesh-and-blood creature as capable of nuances and extremes, virtue and folly, as any man. The Frick Collection in New
York City, a museum which houses European art from the 14th through the 19th centuries, is perhaps one of the best examples to see the varying ways in which women
and females are portrayed during that time period. A highlight of the Fricks holdings is its collection of 18th-century rococo paintings, which features Jean-Honore Fragonards
four panels, "The Progress of Love," commissioned by, and interestingly enough, rejected by Madame du Barry (Hirzy 1). These decorative paintings, in a series of tall panels was completed in
1770. Fragonard often received many commissions for frivolous subjects, to which his technical verve and sense for lively decorative design seemed
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