MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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The Enchanted Interior, Laing Art Gallery Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Challenge to the male gaze in mainstream art
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To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
A POPULAR theme in 19th-century painting is the depiction of domestic interiors as a “gilded cage” in which women are pictured as ornamental objects.
Trapped psychologically or physically, they’re the subject of iconic Pre-Raphaelite and British Orientalist paintings by artists such as Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt and John Frederick Lewis.
Their works are on show in the forthcoming exhibition The Enchanted Interior at Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, alongside works by their female peers such as Emma Sandys and Evelyn De Morgan which challenge and subvert the idealisation of women as captive damsels or passive beauties.
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