In Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting of “A women with a black feather boa” Lautrec is depicting how women were seen in the middle nineteen hundreds in Paris. The picture is dark and ominous, describing the features of women at the time. At the time women were seen as dark and mysterious characters. The painter is directing his work at the female gender. He is trying to show women how they are looked upon in society. The genre of this piece is called post impressionism; it is in this genre due to the time it was painted and that it was in France. Lautrec’s stance on his painting is that women should be treated equal in society. He painted the picture so women would see what they were portrayed as and give them a chance to stand up for their rights. In this instance the media of the piece is a painting. In the photo by Lautrec, the women seem to be transparent. This also is a testament of the hardships women were dealing with in the time. The women of this day and age were looked not important and looked past many times as shown in the painting. The painted woman is extremely ugly, ugly enough that the picture is almost gross at first glance. Women years ago were not thought of as beauty symbols as they are today. They often dressed in disturbing clothes such as the woman in the painting. Women were seen as object and of no importance to the community.
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