Women in Art And Poetry Were The Same

While looking at another piece of Christina Rossetti's writing, "In an Artist's Studio", it is interesting to see a woman's side of the creation process. Men were considered the forefront of every and all forms of anything in her time. It's a fresh and interesting perspective when we recieve the other end of how they get so recongized. This time of art for Rossetti was considered the Pre-Raphaelite era. Women in art were being idealized as they still were being idealized in poems. No art was realistic and all were very idealistic portrayals of what men wanted the women to look like. Rossetti even writes this piece of poetry when her brother is an artist in this time period. She understands the downsides to art being so fantasy filled and unrealistic when it came to women and their standards. She boldy states that women are seen, "Not as she is, but as she fills his dream" (14). Women are used to fill a man's dreams and fantasies specifically in art and literature.