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A muse is a person who provides creative inspiration to a person of the arts (such as a writer, artist, composer, and so on) or sometimes in the sciences. In the course of history, these have usually (but not necessarily) been women. The term is derived from the Muses, ancient Greek goddesses of inspiration. Human muses are woven throughout ...
Artemisia was aware of "her position as a female artist and the current representations of women's relationship to art". [60] This is evident in her allegorical self portrait, Self Portrait as "La Pittura", which shows Artemisia as a muse, "symbolic embodiment of the art" and as a professional artist. [60]
Simone Leigh (born 1967) is an American artist from Chicago whose studio is in Brooklyn in the United States. [1] [2] She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice.
Szewczyk was still a struggling artist in 2019 when she first acquired the beautiful Bagira, (named for black panther Bagheera in the classic novel The Jungle Book) but the new cat soon proved to ...
Allison Zuckerman (born 1990) is an American contemporary artist and painter. [1] Zuckerman's pop-surrealist work [2] fuses painting with digital printing techniques and appropriates various art historical tropes and references to "recast the submissive, romanticized female muses painted by male artists throughout Western art history as commanding, empowered figures."
Marie Tomanova (known as Marie Tomanová, born 1984) is a Czech-born, New York City based artist. Her work focuses primarily on issues of identity and displacement. She first came to international attention with her first book, Young American, which celebrates individuality and youth, particularly in regard to gender, sexuality, and self-expression.
Across 50 years as an artist, she issued solo albums including 1979's bracing comeback, "Broken English,” 1987's Hal Willner-produced “Strange Weather” and 2018's “Negative Capabilities ...
Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) is a nonprofit visual arts studio and private press offering residencies and educational workshops, located in Rosendale, New York. The workshop was founded in 1974 by Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Anita Wetzel, and Barbara Leoff Burge as an alternative space for female artists to create new work, gain artistic experience, and develop new skills.