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Madrid Woman: Emilia Pardo Bazán

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     I have chosen to write my women’s choice blog on Emilia Pardo Bazán. I was able to learn a lot about her when we were by her statue! She was a writer! She wrote over 600 stories. Professor Pratt once set a goal to read one of her stories everyday! He got to about 40-ish days and then decided to call it quits. However, he said they were all very good. She was the 22nd person in Spain to have a telephone. She was pro technology but also couldn’t see how planes could be useful. Planes are my favorite technology so I think it’s funny she didn’t think they would be useful. On a more serious note, she used to give great lectures and even became the first woman to be a professor at the university. Sadly, the male professors didn’t like this and would boycott her lectures. This also caused a lot of the students to not attend them as well because they were scared of the repercussions. She ended up leaving the university and went back to giving lectures outside the university....
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Vienna Art - Mother with two children (family)

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     Today we went to the Belvedere Palace Museum! While we were there we were able to see many paintings by the great Gustav Klimt. This blog post is about his painting titled “Mother with two children (family)”. This painting really stuck out to me because I feel like you can see the exhaustion on the mothers face, it is kind of heartbreaking. The way Gustav painted everything in dark colors except for the peoples faces made your eye go directly to them. When you look up closely you can see the brush strokes Gustav made which to me made their clothes look rough which made them look poor. Also, when I looked up close I could see that all of them have rosy cheeks. This makes them look like they have been wind blown from being out on the streets all day and night. This painting really pulled on my heart strings and I hope that all the people who are living this in real life are doing okay and things will get better.       I think this painting is import...
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Agnès Varda

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     I have had the privilege of learning a lot about Agnès Varda. Some of the things I have learned are really important and serious facts while others are just fun little facts. One of these little facts I have learned is that her signature hairstyle was bright red hair grown out so that the top was gray! I thought this was such a funny little fact and it was so unique. Another thing I have learned is that Agnès started out as a photographer. I think this definitely helped her because as a director you have to be able to see the big picture of the movie. Another fun little fact is that her love of photography inspired her to live on the street named after the person who invented photography! One of the really cool and important facts I have learned about her is that right away she had great respect from male film makers. She was considered one of them. Women were not typically given this amount of respect so this is amazing and just shows what a talent she was.  ...
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