The Seamstress by Anna Blunden and Kiss Me and You’ll Kill the Lasses by Lilly Martin Spencer are both images of women, produced by women who have extremely different backgrounds. The two pieces work together to show that even though these women can live similar lives, they have extremely different feeling toward their situations. With one woman more than happy tending to the family, and one doing everything in her power to leave, they show just how different life can be based on your perspective.
One of the most obvious similarities between these two pieces are the subject matter. They are both women, in green dresses doing the usual women’s work of the time. They are tending to the household chores, and sewing garments on a standard looking …show more content…
Their matching emerald green dresses and hair pulled back in a taught bun show that they are working women and do not have time for over frivolous garments and hair styles. The seamstress and homemaker are your standard women of the nineteenth century who stay inside and maintain the household and children. Clearly between the two of them, the woman depicted in Kiss Me and You’ll Kill the Lasses is more than happy with her job as a mom and homemaker, and The Seamstress is wishing her was anywhere else.
Although The Seamstress and Kiss Me and You’ll Kill the Lasses are paintings of women in their homes, they are surprisingly different from one another. Lilly Martin Spencer is known for her genera paintings of domestic women happily living their lives, and this piece is no different. Kiss Me and You’ll Kill the Lasses shows a woman preparing a meal while flirting with the man of the house. She is still busy tending to the household chores while showing some type of affection for her significant other by exchanging suggestive glances. In the background of the painting is a doorway looking into another room in the house, possibly showing how she is content with living in this home. The room you see looks like some type of family
One of the most obvious similarities between these two pieces are the subject matter. They are both women, in green dresses doing the usual women’s work of the time. They are tending to the household chores, and sewing garments on a standard looking …show more content…
Their matching emerald green dresses and hair pulled back in a taught bun show that they are working women and do not have time for over frivolous garments and hair styles. The seamstress and homemaker are your standard women of the nineteenth century who stay inside and maintain the household and children. Clearly between the two of them, the woman depicted in Kiss Me and You’ll Kill the Lasses is more than happy with her job as a mom and homemaker, and The Seamstress is wishing her was anywhere else.
Although The Seamstress and Kiss Me and You’ll Kill the Lasses are paintings of women in their homes, they are surprisingly different from one another. Lilly Martin Spencer is known for her genera paintings of domestic women happily living their lives, and this piece is no different. Kiss Me and You’ll Kill the Lasses shows a woman preparing a meal while flirting with the man of the house. She is still busy tending to the household chores while showing some type of affection for her significant other by exchanging suggestive glances. In the background of the painting is a doorway looking into another room in the house, possibly showing how she is content with living in this home. The room you see looks like some type of family