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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Françoise Gilot
 

Joel López Palacios, Martina Baliña Abad · 25 febrero 2018 15:58


Name of the male historic character
Pablo Ruiz Picasso

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Picasso was a great painter and sculptor of the 20th century, he had seven wives, among them Françoise Gilot, a young law student, artist and sculptor. They met when she was twenty-one years old and he was sixty-one years old. Pablo painted in some of his works Françoise, one of the most famous was "La femme-Fleur". Françoise not only inspired Picasso to make some of his paintings, but also helped him to paint some of them. She also created several works and sculpted many statues, but she was not recognized as an artist, for the people she was only Picasso's wife.

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Name of the female historic character
 Dorothy Vaughan,
Mary Jackson,
Katherine Johnson
 

Fátima Orosa Paz, Marina Jiménez Rivas, Zeltia Loureiro Esperante · 21 febrero 2018 19:36


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They are the three women who are in the shadow of Neil Armstrong, he was the first man to step on the moon, although the merit should be of these three women who remained in his shadow for being black women.

They were the ones who devised the trip to the moon and made the necessary calculations so that the rocket went and came back from the moon without problem.

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Name of the female historic character
Baroness Elsa van Freytag
 

Ángela Mayo Dosil, niko pato ces · 25 febrero 2018 12:32


Name of the male historic character
Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp and Elsa von Freytag was two artists. They was friends and Elsa gave him some ideas like the battery but Marcel Duchamp was more famouse than Elsa von Freytag. Another sculpture with a big impact was "the fountain", Marcel affirmed that the work was totally his but there are a lot of proofs that say the work could was original of the baroness.

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Name of the female historic character
Lee Krasner
 

Diego Caeiro Costoya, Nerea Barbazán Suárez · 28 febrero 2018 18:29


Name of the male historic character
Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock was a USA famous painter and a very important figure in the moviment of the abstract expressionism paint. Pollock was famous for his different and new style of paint, he splash paint. His woman, Lee Krasner, was another woman in the dark. She was a pianter too, but she didn't became famous and people didn't knew about she and they didn't gave the merit that she desserve, but she helps a lot of times to Pollock with his paints.
She was born in the 27 in October of 1908, and she died in the 19 of June in 1984, with 75 years old. Her husband, Jackson, was born in the 28 in January of 1912 and he died in the 11 in August of 1956, when he was 44 years old.

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Name of the female historic character
Aurora Bernárdez
 

Andrea Suárez Vázquez · 25 febrero 2018 20:22


Name of the male historic character
Julio Cortázar

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Aurora Bernárdez was a translator in the UNESCO and galician-argentine writer who stayed in the shadow of her husband Julio Cortázar. He, as a graduate in Letters and Magisterium, worked in teaching and was a translator in several argentine cities. His wife translated some of the works that Julio signed as his. An example of the works that she translated are Bouvard e Pécuchet
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