Category: Gender

Advertisement for Gay Village on bus in Rome

This advertisement features a close-up of an intimate kiss between two men writ large on the back of a public bus in Rome, Italy. Gay Village is a…

Jelly Jars by Mary Pratt

This small painting by contemporary Canadian artist Mary Pratt is within the genre of super- or photo-realism. It also sit within a tradition of realistic descriptive painting that…

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Baroque painting by Artemisia Gentileschi at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Feminine Stereotypes

Passive and Active Representation of Gender

These magazines show very different versions of masculine and feminine display. The man is featured central to the front page of Forbes, a business and financial advice magazine….

Rainbow Beads

Whether intentional or not, arranging anything in a rainbow pattern today indicates (connotes) LGBTQ interests.