The art piece that im showing is one that truly unnerved me and one I felt is fitting for a gender woman’s class, “The unequal marriage” by Vasily pukirev. Shows a young bride, being married off to an older man. The sheer distress and defeat on her face as everyone watches her getting married, Vasily actually attended the wedding and you can also see the discomfort on his face. He painted this to protest the overwhelming of child brides in Russia at the time. In an unequal marriage, the young bride’s happiness, or wants didn’t matter at all because the man had status and money. To know that this is still such a prevalent and ongoing epidemic, statistically speaking two million child brides are being wed off every single year, or once every two seconds. This painting just exposes the pain one felt in that present movement. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/575616396102037027/
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Hi Rachel, I loved the picture you’ve chosen to take. Instantly after opening the link, I understood the picture so clearly. A woman surrounded by men in the hand of marriage describes old fashion patriarchy. She is sad and has no power, while the men around her are pleased to see her be married off. Something that is still so around in this society.
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Hello Rachel! I really liked the image you chose but what a sad and frustrating situation for the bride. It should have been the happiest moment in her life, for every girl dreams to be the most beautiful bride. But she seems so unhappy and numb, because she is going to marry an elderly. In this unequal marriage is all about the commercialism of Russian society, and in a certain way its something that stills happening in our society.