Men to Avoid in Art and Life

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But one of the reasons why people are receptive to this is that they can laugh with us, and hopefully, they’ll be more aware going forward. For readers unfamilar with the latter, Tersigni cleverly pairs examples from the last 500 years of European art with appropriately illustrative statements attributed to the male characters. It’s interesting because for centuries art has mostly been made by male artists, while female ones have been forgotten or their work has been attributed to someone else. Some of the titles of the paintings describe a situation that should be of love, happiness, or excitement, but the women there look creeped out or disgusted.

It’s huge that my little joke book created this wonderful conversation, and even if just those two people read it and connected, that’s enough. It’s finding out that we have these common experiences and it’s opening some dialogue through it, figuring out how to work together to make it stop.

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I also liked how a list of the paintings used and where they were sourced is included at the end, in case you find one that tickles your fancy and want to see more. Being able to see it from another person’s perspective is so important and it’s something that you don’t do unless you are forced to. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Nicole Tersigni's] hilarious juxtapositions of (mostly sombre) men portrayed in classic paintings with captions pontificating to the women around them have resonated around the world. It’s such a universal experience that you have when people come into your space repeating your own words to you as they thought of it.Another long time reader who read romance novels in her teens, then took a long break before started back again about 25 years ago. I love the fact that you took them and gave the paintings a very different meaning than the one that the painters wanted to give.