Men to Avoid in Art and Life

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If you have 15 minutes to spare and humor yourself, then this is the book for you, I just wish it contained more. Obviously, that was not the artist’s original intent, but what is so wonderful about art is that you look at it and put your own lived experiences into it and interpret it that way. The scenes are centered around a woman in a painting, with a man hovering while overexplaining something at her.

It is interesting how the author collected paintings where women seemed truly annoyed, bored, astonished or simply fed up. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

So I go online just to kind of scroll through Twitter and zone out for a little bit,” she said, “and I see a dude explaining to a woman her own joke back to her — something that has happened to me many times. Edgar Degas, Henri Degas and His Niece Lucie Degas, 1875-76, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Through cringe-induced empathy, this timeless gift book of shared experiences unites women across history in one of the most powerful forms of resistance: laughter. That happens all the time and it’s so annoying: it’s one of those little things that are not a huge deal but are irritating and build up.

Other women are fantastic, and you clearly have no respect for them if you think that saying that I’m not like them it’s a compliment. One of the images that popped up, which was the first one that I used in the thread, was this painting of a woman holding her bare boob, surrounded by these men. This hilarious book perfectly captures those relatable moments when a man explains to a woman a subject about which. 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. I have so many favorites, but the one that makes me laugh every time I see it is Portrait of Sir Henry Capel by Sir Peter Lely, where a man is standing next to a bust of a lady, a statue, and he’s got his hand on her and says, “You are not like other girls”.Tersigni combines art history with social media to create something almost every woman (and maybe some men! Hahaha - It is so satisfying to see the annoyed, yet jaded expression on the woman's face in great works of art when the man is being so infuruatingly patronizing! With vague blanket statements like "Twitter is a daily reminder that I'm a woman" and an unnecessary, unfunny tampon joke, I just don't know what the point of her commentary was. Many museums have their databases online so that you can scroll through all their collections; I went through all these museums and picked the paintings that I wanted and learned about their artists.

Nicole Tersigni stumbled into fame — and publication — by pairing works by the Great Masters with misogynistic statements on her Twitter feed. I remember when the Twitter thread this is based on was going around; I thought it was super sharp and amusing. Last Name * Please enter a Last Name Please enter a valid Last Name, the maximum length is 50 characters. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.It's in the vein of the popular comical memes that pair vintage art with sassy statements; only here, the art is classical and the statements are a painful kind of comedy as they highlight the ludicrous lows of sexism. And then, when I was putting the book together, I had to use art in the public domain; that’s why many of those paintings are older or very obscure. Then a book agent reached out and asked me if I wanted to make that a book and I said, “Let’s do it! One of the most fun things about owning a Sharing Library (which is the un-trademarked name of the more ubiquitous Little Free Libraries) is finding treasures like these generously popped in by an anonymous donor.