What female types does Mickalene Thomas's Portrait of Mnonja evoke?
a) African-American superstar divas of the 1970s
b) Spanish prostitutes as depicted in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
c) the Virgin Mary and the female saints in Jan van Eyck's The Ghent Altarpiece
d) avant-garde paintings of female figures in motion
Answer: a
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