[ID: Screenshot of an Instagram post by The Female Quotient, that reads "Do you recognize this painting? Blue Monday is one of the most iconic works in Black American art, portraying a Black woman who is exhausted yet rises each Monday to return to work. Painted by Annie Lee, an artist who didn't start to pursue art until her 40s, the piece was inspired by her own all too familiar morning struggle." The post is accompanied by a thumbnail that shows the painting referenced on the left, and a photo of the artist on the right. The painting uses mostly cool dark blues to render a dark bedroom, with only faint streaks of yellow showing light coming from a standing lamp behind the bed. The main figure is a dark-skinned woman with curls of grey in her short black hair, wearing a loose nightgown that slips off her shoulder. She slumps on the bed, hands braced against the comforter in long thin lines as if to hold herself upright. Her head is lowered between the points of her shoulders, and her face is indistinct in the gloom of the low light and her downward pose. The artist is a smiling Black woman with short buzzed grey hair and visible wrinkles. She is wearing frameless glasses, golden hoop earrings, a thin gold necklace with a medallion-shaped pendant, and a black V-neck shirt. End ID.]
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