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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 ...
Many of Gentileschi's paintings feature women from myths, allegories, and the Bible, including victims, suicides, and warriors. [6] Some of her best-known subjects are Susanna and the Elders (particularly the 1610 version in Pommersfelden ), Judith Slaying Holofernes (her 1614–1620 version is in the Uffizi gallery), and Judith and Her ...
Models (painting) Morgan le Fay (painting) Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah; Mother and Child (Cassatt) Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid; Mother with Child; A Mother's Duty; Mothers, Sisters; Mrs. Atkinson (Gwen John) The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting) Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed'
1974 in art – Death of Adolph Gottlieb, William C. Seitz, For the first time in art history, the chemogram invented by Josef H. Neumann closed the separation of the painterly background and the photographic layer in a symbiosis of painting and real photographic perspective.
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.
Elderly Lady (circa 1740), painting by Rosalba Carriera. Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "Emphatically Corporeal Visual Subject", with Vernon Lee as a notable example. [1]
[1] The book includes well over 300 images of paintings by over 200 painters, most of whom were born in the 19th century and won medals and awards at various international exhibitions. The book is a useful reference work for anyone studying women's art of the late 19th century.
Nicholson, Elizabeth S. G. "Diana Scultori." Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Milano: Skira, 2007; Rocco, Patricia. The Devout Hand: Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy, McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, 2017 “Splendid Japanese Women Artists of the Edo Period”.