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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Yoko Ono
 

Marta Pérez López, Samuel Míguez Blanco · 23 febrero 2018 18:08


Name of the male historic character
John Lennon

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Yoko Ono and John Lennon met at an art galery. John Lennon was a singer, he was born in Liverpool, he belonged the group of The Beatles. Yoko Ono was a japanese artist, she was born in Tokio.

Their relationship caused a lot of discomfort from the beginning.
From 1967 to 1980, they formed a very controversial couple with a concept of free love.

She exerted a great personal and professional influence on John Lennon and many people blamed her for the fall of the Beatles.She was a member of the music Fluxus Collective. She sang many songs and helped her husband. She was a singer when she met him.

The couple remained together for 13 years until 1980, a crazy fan of the musician, ended the life of Lennon and ruined the story of love. Lennon's murder left Yoko Ono a widow and a boy.

Still, she always lived in the shadow of John Lennon. She is currently leading the fight against the ' Frac King ' and his son Sean is a singer. Nowadays, she is still a singer.

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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
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
Amal Clooney
 

Jessica Natalia Pinheiro, Raúl Suárez Cea · 22 febrero 2018 20:45


Name of the male historic character
George Clooney

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Amal Clooney is a Lebanese-British lawyer, activist and writer. She is a lawyer for Doughty Street Chambers, specializing in International Law, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Extradition. His clients include Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, in his fight against extradition. He has also represented the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. She is married to the American actor George Clooney.

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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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