Can You Name 5 Women Artist?
Prior to this course this question was challenging, it was even hard to name 5 male artists, let alone female artists, nonetheless with the repertoire offered in this course and the entertaining trip to the Brooklyn Museum, One's eyes are opened to this phenomenon- in which the history of art is predominantly represented by men without much regard to the great contributions of women artists. To speak in jest at this point I can with some confidence name 50 women artists, but I will stick with five. The five women artists I chose are Anne Vallayer-Coster, Sonia Delaunay, Lee Krasner, Judy Chicago and Rosemarie Trockel.
Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818)
Anne Vallayer-Coster was a French painter of the 18th century, born in a noble family with a tendency for art, she had the prerogative to surpass the conditions of the age as a female artist and upon submitting two of her paintings she was elected in the prestigious French Royal Academy. After several years of her artistic career she would be closely associated with the French Noble families to the extent that she won the patronage of Queen Marie-Antoinette. She is famously known for her still lifes.
Still life with round bottle
Still life with lobster (1781)
eventually due to her close association with Marie Antoinette, her career suffered during the French Revolution. She continued exhibiting at the Salon, however, until the year before her death.
Sonia Delaunay
(1885-1979)
Sonia Delaunay was a Russian artist who moved to Paris at a young age and spent most of her career life there, her work is characterized by strong colors and geometric shapes as Chadwick explains"ease of movement and primacy of color as expressive medium also characterized Sonia Delaunay's work in both painting and decoration"(260)
Couverture 1911
Prismes electriques
Lee Krasner
(1908-1984)
Lee Krasner belongs to the first generation of Abstract Expressionist painters,born in Brooklyn, New York.Krasner pursued formal art training at several New York city institutions, during the 1930's she worked for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.Her positions with the Mural Division provided her with valuable experience working on a large scale, she was also an active member of the Artists Union and The American Abstract Artists.
Gouache Number 4 ( Study for Lavender) 1942
Still life 1938
Judy Chicago
(1939-)
After more than four decades, Judy Chicago continues to be influential feminist artist, author, and educator. Her pioneering work helped establish the Feminist Art Movement of the 1970's. The Dinner Party executed between 1974-1979 and was first exhibited in 1979 is regarded as the first epic piece of feminist artwork. It functions as a symbolic history of women of mostly Western civilization. The goal of this piece was to “end the ongoing cycle of omission in which women were written out of historical record”. With the use of hundreds of volunteers, the exhibit is comprised of a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged in a triangular table, including thirty-nine place settings. With 13 place settings on each side. Each place setting commemorates an important woman from history including, Hatshepsut, Ishtar, Virginia Woolf, Sojourner Truth and others. Each place setting includes a hand-painted china plate, ceramic flatware, and chalice, and an embroidered gold edge napkin with the woman’s name and images relating to her accomplishments. It has been a permanent exhibition within the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art of the Brooklyn Museum since 2007.
The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party
Rosemarie Trockel (1952-)
Rosemarie Trockel is a German artist she lives and works in Cologne. She works on paper and sculptures but famously known for her "Knitted pictures", her work is influenced by "conceptual and socio-political art"(Chadwick 397).Though it is difficult to associate a particular style with her work, several concurrent themes can be identified within her oeuvre, such as the female role in society, the trademarks and symbols as social signifiers and decorations and finally, her fascination with ethnographic and scientific studies, which are often expressed through her sculptures,she exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe.
Dress Stage 2012
Umbrella 2008
A Ship So Big, a Bridge Cringes 2004
Untitled 2006
Paranoia 2013
Works Cited:
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Fifth Edition. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.
Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside companion to the History of Western Art. New York: Penguin, 1998. Print
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/dinner_party
http://www.gladstonegallery.com/artist/rosemarie-trockel/work#&panel1-1
Links:
This video on The National Museum Of Women In The Arts, is enlightening and entertaining about the subject of women artists.
Women Artists
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