Diego Velázquez and John Singer Sargent: The Hidden Social Expectations in Female Portraits

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200709.005How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Baroque, Diego Velázquez, John Singer Sargent, Feminism, Image Analysis

Abstract

Artistic representations always reflect the values and norms of the contemporary societies. This paper focuses on the genre of portrait paintings and its relationship to the misogynistic social historical context. This paper specifically discusses the Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez’s portrait series of Princess Margarita Teresa, and the Italian-American painter John Singer Sargent’s “Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.” Through analyzing the visual components such as composition, proportion and lighting, the paper cross-examine the two artists’ depictions of femininity. It can be concluded that these portraits’ emphasis on innocence and virginity echo the expectations for females in the patriarchal, materialistic societies. The paper contributes to visual studies of Baroque and Realism artists.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yueling Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/09
TI  - Diego Velázquez and John Singer Sargent: The Hidden Social Expectations in Female Portraits
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 18
EP  - 22
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200709.005
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200709.005
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