The gaze
Hans Memling 'Vanity" (1485)
The subject and the object
this image is equal and aimed a men, It shows control and domination swell as power over women, the submissive/passive/obedient female.
A man has painted this for a man, the fact that he has called it vanity, implies that she is vain, which mocks women even more, a ideal fantasy, which mocks and degrades women, a theme which continues in todays modern society. Patriarchal ideal of femininity, where the fame is passive/ submissive and the males are active/ dominant.
At he time men were painters and women were not, therefore making art sexist/ bias,there were men who wrote about male fantasies of power, linking to female submissiveness. they wrote about the aesthetics.
Culture has determined how women are sexualised and seen as being submissive, as women have never had power and men always have had power.
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