In summary, \u2018In an Artist\u2019s Studio\u2019 is about the male artist\u2019s tendency to objectify his female sitters or \u2018models\u2019 for his paintings and sculptures; the woman is merely a passive object on which the artist projects his fantasies and Christina Rossetti \u2018dreams\u2019. Written by a woman, the poem at first seems confusing\u00a0 The artist is seen as a sort of predator or parasite, \u2018feed[ing] upon\u2019 the face of the female model \u2013 \u2018by day and night\u2019, we learn, the odd mention of \u2018night\u2019 suggesting some sort of male monster or demon. Rossetti seeks to demonstrate how women are treated and how they are viewed. This poem examines the tendency of men to objectify women in art and the way that women are shown to suffer as a result. The poem presents us with a male artist who has one beautiful muse who is the subject of all of his paintings. We can see therefore that in his art the male artist objectifies her and limits her to this “one meaning.” The poem becomes more sinister as we see that “He feeds upon her face by day and night,” which presents us with an almost vampiric image of how the artist treats this unnamed woman. As the poem ends it is clear that in a sense the artist is not strictly painting the woman before him, because the woman he is painting is merely an object for his satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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