Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement ("Homme et femme devant un tas d'excréments") is a 1935 oil painting on copper by Joan Miró. The painting was made on a piece of copper in the week between 15 and 22 October 1935. Miró said that the subject resulted from trying to represent the tragedy and torture of the Spanish Civil War. The painting was one of twelve known as the "Wild Paintings". Half of these were painted on copper whilst the remaining six were on the type
Women in Mexico women's role as being within the family under the authority of men. In the twentieth century, Mexican women made great strides towards a more equal legal and social status. In 1953 women in Mexico were granted the right to vote in national elections. Urban women in Mexico worked in factories, the earliest being the tobacco factories set up in major Mexican cities as part of the lucrative tobacco monopoly. Women ran a variety of enterprises in the colonial era, with the widows of elite businessmen continuing to run the family business. In the prehispanic and colonial periods, non-elite women were