Women in Art

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Moses, Frida Kahlo

Medium: oil,masonite

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The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization. There are 39 elaborate place settings arranged along a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women-The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago, 1974-79

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is it not misandry

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Louise Bourgeois inspired 

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Shinique Smith inspired 

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Bourgeois in 1975, wearing a latex cast of her work Avenza

via http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/arts/design/a-look-inside-louise-bourgeoiss-home-just-how-she-left-it.html

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Sarah Lucas ‘Untitled’ (tit chair), 2012 and Skull, 2000

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Betty Woodman, ‘Polka Dot,’ 2012, Gallery Diet

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Yayoi Kusama in her New York studio, c.1958–59

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“Her name is Bourgeois, but she is not bourgeois”: Jerry Gorovoy on a lifetime working with Louise Bourgeois via It’s Nice That

“If she didn’t have problems in the real world, I don’t think she would’ve been an artist. She tried to escape, understand or forgive what she went through. Her work is an inquiry into a state of being.”

via http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/louise-bourgeois-jerry-gorovoy-guggenheim-bilbao-220316

[the-real-eye-to-see]

How Nina Chanel Abney Is Championing the Black Lives Matter Movement with a Paintbrush

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Anne Arnold with Christy, c. 1987; Sitting Cat, 1888; Quixote (Cat), 1982.

Anne Arnold, (1925-2014) was a sculptor best known for her whimsical life-size and sometimes larger than life-size sculptures of animals and people rendered in wood, ceramic, or softer materials such as canvas and Dynel, and resins.

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“My main desire was to express the Egyptian character, the reality and dreams of the simple downtrodden man who works hard all day in horrible circumstances without enjoying lawful rights or having a law to protect him. I wanted to reveal to people the abuse of man by man and the deteriorating situation of women in the Egyptian society, especially the working women and the female peasants.”

Inji Aflatoun (1924-1989)

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In the 1960s artists began to use their own bodies as expressive material in works that exist at the intersection of dance, performance, and theater. Using the body as a tool, artists like Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Martha Araujo, and Cecilia Vicuña, explore temporality, aesthetics, subjectivity, and audience engagement in works performed live or documented in photos and video. 

Posted by Rachel Lewis

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 Geraldine McCullough’s Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1973 

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Kiki Smith in her studio in Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America (2005)

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Bester IV, Mayotte, by Zanele Muholi, 2015.

South-African photographer and visual activist, born in 1972.