Heroes of our time: Michelle Bachelet Painting

Michelet Bachelet is a Chilean socialist politician. She became a member of the Socialist Youth as a student. When Augusto Pinochet took the power via the coup d’état of 1973, Michelle and her mother were detained, like her father who served under Salvador Allende. They were tortured , her father would die in prison, while Michele and her mother were able to go into exile abroad. After four years, Michelle returned to Chile and when democracy was re-established in 1990, she became minister of health and later minister of defense. In 2006 Michelle became Chiles first female elected president. She served two times a as president, in which she worked very hard to make a positive change. A number of new measures and legislations would help to do so, such as; help for the poorest, a reformed education system which also allowed poor students to go to college, a ministry for woman’s rights and gender equality, legalization of abortion, tax reform and measures against tax evasion, and many more. She won numerous honors and awards and is since 2018 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. This portrait is one of a series of 13 called ‘Heroes of our time’ about woman who fight for human rights. The series are for sale, not the individual portraits. Price indicated with this portrait will be x 13, for all 13 portraits Half of my earnings will go the portrayed, to support their case.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 47.2 H x 0.8 D in

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