Why Is Virna Lisi Important To Men And Women?

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The first artwork featuring Virna Lisi represented the women’s movement that caught attention from the public. That particular movement wanted to get rid of women’s traditional roles and make them become more like their gender counterparts, men. I feel like this shouldn’t be a thing in today’s society. I believe men and women should be unique in their own genders as that’s how we were created to be.
The second artwork to the right of that is a showing of Roy Cohn wearing a halo pinned on his head, displaying himself as an angel. Cohn did not want to be a part of the photo as seen from his facial expression, but went through it anyway. It’s something different that I’ve seen compared to a variety of works I’ve seen by different artists. I found it to be a tad ironic that Cohn has a halo with that kind of facial expression on him.
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He was sentenced to five years in prison for draft evasion. When I saw this, I had sympathy for Ali. No one should go through hell like that only because they didn’t want to fight. The portrayal of what the artist was going for was pretty consistent from my perspective.
The last artwork is named “Little Big Man.” This Esquire cover was meant to prove that you don’t absolutely need an eye-catching celebrity on the front all the time. So they decided that they will use an American actor such as Dustin Hoffman as an example to fulfill their task with the right intentions. I thought the detail looked pretty solid and they did a nice job at lining up Hoffman with the buildings as well. It was an interesting choice that they used someone other than a celebrity on the

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