I choose The Middle-Aged Flavian Woman that illustrates a Roman woman in the late 1st Century CE. Also, The Man and Woman photograph by Eikoh Hosoe taken in 1960 that shows the chest and arm of a man as well, the face of a woman under the man’s arm. Too, I choose Passageway by Richard Murai taken in 2009 that illustrates a woman walking down the hallway. To sum up, all this three portraits represent a woman and are not in color which gives more power to each portrayal.
The Middle-Aged Flavian Woman is a sculpture of a Roman woman’s neck and head. This sculpture is 24.1 centimeters and was made during the Late 1st Century CE. The lines impressed into this sculpture made of marble are profound, and show expression and wrinkles. The wrinkles clearly marked by the passage of time…show more content… During this dynasty, the Flavians tried to recollect the ideals and forms of earlier peaceful times and they were the family behind the Colosseum. The Roman woman’s hair is wrapped and held together at the back of her head which is the latest fashion. The play of natural light over the sculpted marble surfaces creates the textures of real skin and hair.
The Man and Woman photograph by Eikoh Hosoe (a Japanese) created in 1960 in Yonezawa, Yamagata (Japan) shows a woman’s apparently severed head placed under the arm of the man. The woman’s head is located in the center and she is staring directly to the camera. Both the man and woman are nude and the background of the photograph is too dark to permit seeing the rest of their bodies. Both figures shown in the nude highlights that they are real because we can see the characteristics of two human being bodies. We are only able to see the head of the woman plus the chest and arm of the man. The arm of the man is strong and powerful, suggesting that the woman follows him inertly and with no status.
