I don’t take it personally because it’s clearly from someone who has not given it a single moment of reflection. If someone comes with genuine feedback or a question, then I’ll take the time and talk to them, but I don’t talk with someone who is just being mean.

For the women who have endured overbearing men throughout the centuries, Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomise the mansplaining spirit with hilariously painful accuracy. But then after reading through it (it’s fairly short and easy to whip through), I imagine that most women have had similar (or the exact same) statements made to them by men. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. First Name * Please enter a First Name Please enter a valid First Name, the maximum length is 50 characters.Many museums have their databases online so that you can scroll through all their collections; I went through all these museums and picked the paintings that I wanted and learned about their artists. I enjoyed the creativity, humor and the unmistakable match of punchlines and paintings but I found the book too short and insufficient to satisfy your enthusiasm. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Each illustration is captured with the kind of misogynistic statements that are all too easy to find appended as supposedly clever comments to innocuous tweets on Twitter. I have so many favorites, but the one that makes me laugh every time I see it is Portrait of Sir Henry Capel by Sir Peter Lely, where a man is standing next to a bust of a lady, a statue, and he’s got his hand on her and says, “You are not like other girls”.

As a reader, I can tell you that what I got from your book was a bittersweet feeling, because on one side I thought that this kind of things, from mansplaining to sexual harassment, happen too much frequently, but on the other side I felt understood like I was not alone fighting that.Bitingly funny, heartbreakingly relatable, Nicole's take on the painted weary gives new meaning to 'art criticism.

This hilarious book perfectly captures those relatable moments when a man explains to a woman a subject about which he knows considerably less than she does. Out in the world, we are constantly assessing our interactions with people, like “what is this person going to do? It's one of those books that you have on the living room, ready to be read by anyone and surely creates interesting conversations!The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The way Men to Avoid in Art and Life was born is a great example of how social networks can be allies of arts and culture, but how does a Twitter thread become a book? The scenes are centered around a woman in a painting, with a man hovering while overexplaining something at her.

It also made me want to strangle someone at times though :-) The humor was biting, sarcastic, and just what I needed for a change while locked down at home for this virus that seems never ending. You'll love this book if you love books like Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, Milk and Vine: Inspirational Quotes from Classic Vines by Emily Beck, and Awards For Good Boys: Tales Of Dating, Double Standards, And Doom by Shelby Lorman. Some we receive from the authors, some we receive from the publisher, and some we receive through a third party service like Net Galley.Since I am an Art History student I enjoyed seeing the art, but what I enjoyed, even more, is the way the author managed to find a fitting and very true caption to put next to the painting! Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. I can’t believe I didn’t know Charles van Beveren before this,) often depicting a woman whose expression can be easily interpreted as her being bored or bothered by the man next to her.