This painting is called Daddy's Little Girl, by Greg Olsen. It is a beautiful piece and indirectly contains many transcendentalist ideas. What if the little girl in the painting doesn't want to get married? What if that isn't apart of what she wants to do with her life? While she is so young and impressionable, are her parents forcing her into this way of thinking: that in order to be a good woman you have to get married and have many kids? "It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; in their association; in their property in their speculative views..." Says Emerson in his article titled Self Reliance. The girl this art is portraying needs to know that if she wants to get married, that's awesome, but if she chooses not to, that's OK too. She's still a good person.
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