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Cubism. Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ wʊlf /; [2] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London.
In the United Kingdom, as in other countries, feminism seeks to establish political, social, and economic equality for women. The history of feminism in Britain dates to the very beginnings of feminism itself, as many of the earliest feminist writers and activists—such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Barbara Bodichon, and Lydia Becker —were British.
The women's art movements spread world-wide in the latter half of the 20th century, including Sweden, Denmark and Norway, Russia, and Japan. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Women artists from Asia, Africa and particularly Eastern Europe emerged in large numbers onto the international art scene in the late 1980s and 1990s as contemporary art became popular worldwide.
Alice Hunt Bartlett. Elizabeth Bartlett (British poet) Henrietta Batson. Christine Battersby. Kay Baxter (dramatist) Helen Beauclerk.
The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. [1] Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, and Lytton Strachey. Their works and outlook deeply influenced literature ...
This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total. Bermudian women writers (1 C, 3 P) English women writers (10 C, 262 P) Gibraltarian women writers (6 P) Manx women writers (1 C, 8 P) Women writers from Northern Ireland (8 C, 11 P) Scottish women writers (10 C, 104 P) Welsh women writers (9 C, 10 P)
Jacqueline Lamba (1910–1993), French painter, married (1934–1943) to André Breton. Maruja Mallo (1902–1995), Galician Spanish avant-garde artist whose painting in the 1930s was influenced by Surrealism. Margaret Modlin (1927–1998), American surrealist painter, sculptor and photographer who spent most of her adult life in Spain.