Analysis: Her World Vs The Real World

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My artwork called, “Her World vs the Real world” directly relates to feminism because it portrays a confident woman that is carefree and powerful and peaceful and beautiful, but then society and world makes her feel like an ugly unworthy person and she is felt left in the cold dark with no where to go. Her original reality was bright, beautiful and full of nature on one side, but then on the other side the media takes over her and and makes her feel terrible about herself on the inside and the outside since that is what media does to women. Feminists are trying to combat these labels that I placed on the TV because it destroys what the women are capable of doing and it destroys their faith that they can do whatever they dream of. On the left

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