Igor Morskki's Acrylic Painting, Ladies

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Polish artist Igor Morski produces surreal paintings, drawings, and other works of art that possess implied or hidden meanings. One painting with implied meanings is Morski’s acrylic painting, Ladies. The image of a little girl with toys strewn about while being surrounded by a cage resembling the figure of a grown woman provokes thought regarding the hidden meanings behind this painting.
The painting presents one such hidden meaning by using the cage around the little girl. By the cage being put around the little girl, the pressure that society puts on females to become or grow up in a particular way is represented. Girls are forced to grow into the feminine definitions that society has determined. They are also instructed to be women who

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