Musings On Womahood

Lina Vincent Sunish

The BBC recently produced a video that morphed 50 female portraits from the history of western art. ‘Changing Faces: 500 years of women’ showed portraits in chronological order, from Russian icon painting to Renaissance portraits of Titian, Raphael and Botticelli, to Picasso’s 1946 sketch of his lover and much more. “Among them are virgins, housewives, and goddesses: they look out from the canvas with a coy sideways glance, a challenging stare and a wistful gaze.” says the caption note. A beautiful compilation, even though majority (or all) the artists are male.