Youngster Art Collector Acquires Painting At Cheap Auction, Later Finds Out Its Real Worth
A Focus On Women
A lot of Neuhuys and his peer’s works also centered around the domestic tasks people carried out. It often involved someone mending something or farmworkers in the fields harvesting. One of the common striking characteristics of this era of art was the story of interaction they told.
The era was also one where patriarchy ruled, and women were often at home doing housekeeping and raising children while men went out and worked in the field or factories. The pieces were often female-oriented, with a mother or girl in the central role.
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