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This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Pages in category "20th-century American women artists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,821 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Women artists became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "New Woman". [ 26 ] In the late 19th century, Charles Dana Gibson depicted the "New Woman" in his piece, The Reason Dinner was Late , which shows a woman painting a policeman.
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
Most of the 18th-century portraits occupy a placid middle ground between the styles of the two dominant male artists of the time, Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, typified by Katherine ...
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. [1] Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:20th-century British artists. It includes British artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:20th-century British male artists
Pages in category "20th-century women painters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 541 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .