Since smiling women were seen at the time as openly seductive, deceitful, drunk, boorish, or attempting to gain power, to be seen smiling in a portrait was thought of as a signal of some or all of ...

Housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris, this captivating portrait draws millions of visitors each year, all eager to see the mysterious woman whose enigmatic smile has puzzled historians and art ...

From there, I draw their portraits and create the pieces ... Why don’t you smile more? Why shouldn’t women smile more? [Laughs] I smile a lot. Smiling is a very natural thing.

Named for a self-portrait of Fazlalizadeh with the message “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” the formidable portraits include sentiments meant to deter street harassment. One piece tells viewers ...

The unsmiling women refuse to submit or project ... the gravitas of portrait sessions lingered. For European aristocrats, smiling was a sign of losing face, said Vanessa Brown, a lecturer in ...

“Not surprisingly, early amateur portraits published in Studio Light ... Another ad shows a smiling woman standing in a field of wildflowers, with the caption "Kodak as you go." ...

Fiorina's remarks on smile frequency may have come in response ... The posters she pastes on buildings across the country feature portraits of women, arms-crossed, expressions sour, with captions ...

But Angus Trumble, the director of the National Portrait Gallery in ... increased over time and also that women led the way to toothy grins, on average smiling more than men did in any given ...

A portrait of a smiling woman with curly hair. "We froze in front of the portrait for a few seconds. I felt a strange closeness. I turned to my boyfriend and asked: 'Does this portrait look like me?'" ...

has been taking on street harassment since 2012 with her campaign "Stop Telling Women to Smile," a series of street posters with portraits of women and messages like "Critiques on my body are not ...

An incredibly rare 19th century portrait that captures a woman smiling is winning praise online for bucking the trend of the time which called for photo subjects to who little or no emotion.