The picture I choose is Clean Up at the Monsanto House of the Future. As Ms. Alvarez mentioned in the class, she thinks that the costume you wear shows what kind of person you are, and the girl in the painting seems fashionable and beautiful. Even though she is cleaning, the painting does not show the girl as a housewife but it rather looks like she is gathering memories as the golden drops fall and she piles them in a mountain. It might, at the same time, be negatively regarded as the symbol and the continuation of women as house workers for the girl’s cleaning even in her nice clothes. For me, the leaves on the top left seem like a crying women as the golden drops as her tears. In that sense, the painting can be seen as an irony that there would still exist the common sense that women should do the housework in the future. But either case, we can see the massage that she rejects the stereotype of women who wear convenient and rough clothes for domestic duties. I don’t understand what each element in the painting means, but family seems to be always important as Ms. Alvarez puts three people behind the pile in the painting. As Ms. Alvarez herself was influenced and inspired by her family, the painting seems to say that family is always around you.
I really liked how you stated that the leaves seem like tear drops because I can see that as well. The family in the back seems to be a wealthy family something that maybe Alvarez used to see when she would go clean houses with her mother. Perhaps this might be an experience that she had?
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you stated that the leaves seem like tear drops because I can see that as well. The family in the back seems to be a wealthy family something that maybe Alvarez used to see when she would go clean houses with her mother. Perhaps this might be an experience that she had?
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