Research essay:
Your position (based directly on all of your research): Explain a warning or solution regarding a more recent work that has functioned as an icon or symbol regarding gender or sexuality, similarly to Blue Boy. You might focus on Canada, North America, or another part of the world, or examine the iconic work of art across parts of the world. The work can be a painting, photograph, song, documentary, film, TV show/episode, or ad, that is well known and has generated “copies” or broader cultural impact (again, like Blue Boy).
The third-storey or “so what?”: How/why does this example show a pattern or contrast regarding how art can lead to cultural changes or why is the warning/solution significant according to your analysis of the research (identify a specific impact, consequence, or outcome)?
Example sources: the video “Why is Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’ so famous? | National Gallery” or “Kehinde Wiley: A Portrait of a Young Gentleman – Artist Reception” (these are reliable sources because they were made/posted by a museum, both well know institutions that are accountable for the correctness of the information it offers)
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