Happy International Women’s Day! I hope you are celebrating today with all women present in your lives: girlfriends, mothers, sisters, aunties, hairdressers, nail stylists, doctors, engineers, teachers, politicians and wise grannies.
Today’s post is a remainder to all of you, my dear women. Please, always remember that…
You are beautiful
Umberto Boccioni, Study Of A Feminine Face, 1910, Private Collection
You are smart
Fernand Léger, Woman with a Book, 1923, MoMA
You are strong
Frida Kahlo, Tree Of Hope, Remain Strong (Arbol de la Esperanza, Mantente Firme), 1946, Daniel Filipacchi Collection, Paris
You are free
Rene Magritte, Freedom Of Mind, 1948
You are somebody’s inspiration
Odilon Redon, Muse On Pegasus, 1900, Private Collection
You can do anything
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Young Girls by the Seaside, 1887, Musée d’Orsay
You can become whoever you wish
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #6, 1977, MoMa
You are of no less importance than anyone else
Diego Velazquez, Portrait Of The Infanta Maria Teresa Future Queen Marie Therese Of France, 1653, Louvre, Paris
You are a work of art!
Gustav Klimt,The Three Ages of Woman (Die drei Lebensalter einer Frau), 1905, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
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Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.
