A Push for Women’s Rights
6November 4, 2012 by mamie
Completed Date: 10/21/12
Medium: mixed media (colored pencil, marker, newspaper)
Description: This is one of my AP Art sketches, and the assignment was to create a piece of narrative art that had something to do with a news story or current event. Recently, I heard about Malala, a fourteen-year-old girl and advocate for women’s right in Pakistan, who was shot by a member of the Taliban, so I decided to use that specific story and the overall struggle for women’s rights in the Middle East as my subject. I used a simple sort of stained-glass-inspired style and also used a few religious symbols and other symbols from literature as hints toward the meaning. For instance, the tree and the pomegranate (sometimes an apple) represent knowledge; the snake wearing the beard and turban and biting the woman’s ankle represents the hindrances and oppression from the Taliban and other groups that hold back Middle Eastern women; and the kite (from the book The Kite Runner that I read this summer) represents hope for the future.
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Beautiful painting – the symbols are amazing and you’re honoring a woman who deserves to be respected and remembered – I loved the Kite Runner – both the book and the movie!
Thank you! I’ll definitely have to see the movie the Kite Runner because I loved the book!
What a wonderful way to use your talent. Thank you for sharing your art and this very important message.
It really makes me realize how lucky I am to have a voice in this world. Thanks for the kind comment.
Art can express so much, and even make a difference to how society sees different issues. Well done for tackling this subject! Have to say I really love your blog banner, too … =D
Thanks! (I was lucky to come across the picture for the banner.). 🙂