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Elise Ansel is a "visual translator, taking paintings by the Old Masters and rendering them in a contemporary artistic language, shifting them from figuration into abstraction, transforming their meaning and message." [Stacey Kors, Zest, 2019] For Ansel, the act of painting represents an alternative way of seeing, allowing her to engage in an intimate dialogue with her source and to comprehend it on a more profound level. "By applying her contemporary female perspective to centuries-old male works of art, Ansel is addressing the continued gender inequality in our …