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Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. [1] The group formed in New York City in 1985, born out of a picket against the Museum of Modern Art the previous year.
1808: Juana Galán was a guerrilla fighter of the Peninsular War (1808–1814). [16] 1808: Manuela Malasaña participated in The 2nd of May Uprising in Madrid (1808) against the troops of Napoleon I of France during the Peninsular War. [16] 1808: Agustina de Aragón defended Spain during the Spanish War of Independence. [17]
Like the original Guerrilla Girls, founded in 1985, each member of Guerrilla Girls On Tour performs using the name of a dead female artist and wears a gorilla mask to conceal her true identity, operating as a collective entity. Their company is made up of approximately 20 to 30 members of women actors, directors, designers, producers, directors ...
Guerrilla Girls was formed by 7 women artists in the spring of 1985 in response to the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture", which opened in 1984. The exhibition was the inaugural show in the MoMA's newly renovated and expanded building, and was planned to be a survey of the most important ...
She believed Solanas was ahead of her time, living in a period before feminist and lesbian activists such as the Guerrilla Girls and the Lesbian Avengers. [64] Solanas has also been credited with instigating radical feminism. [59] Catherine Lord wrote that "the feminist movement would not have happened without Valerie Solanas". [3]
The exhibition purported to present the most notable recent work in contemporary art. Of 165 artists in the show, only 13 were women, spurring a group of women artists of the time to form Guerrilla Girls, who continue their activist performance and multi-media work today.
With that came the birth of the Guerrilla Girls who devoted their time to fighting sexism and racism in the art world through the use of protest, posters, artwork and public speaking. Unlike the feminist art prior to the 1980s, the Guerrilla Girls introduced a bolder more in-your-face identity and both captured attention and exposed sexism.
Guerrilla Girl may refer to: Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of radical feminist, female artists; Guerrilla Girl; Guerrilla Girl; See also Gorilla Girl, a ...