Art Gallery Visit

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[Lucy Angus]

"What is the relationship between power and the act of looking or being looked at? Who has the right to look and how is looking legitimated and culturally coded? And crucially for us, how does... the act of looking at art.. relate to the conditions of looking in life for men and women?" (Tamar Garb).

This quote was featured in the final section of the exhibit on tour from the Paris musée D'Orsay that focused on the changing depiction of women in art during the modernist period. It has begun to help me reflect differently on how we present and look at children's art and also how we observe children and are observed as educators.