Five women in art

     My trip to the Brooklyn Museum was not only interesting but also enlightening.  There were many items on display but the main focus was on the Dinner Party exhibition by Judy Chicago. Of the five women I will highlight Judy will be one. Judy is an artist who earns her reorganization in physical art and as a writer. Her masterpiece the Dinner Party is the piece that got the most buzz. It is ironic that such a beautiful piece has gotten such opposition from the U. S. Sennett because of their biases and discrimination against women. Below is a picture of piece of her work from the Dinner Party exhibition.

    This piece highlighted the female vulva design in the form of a flower of which it is seeing that this organ brings such pleasure and is also a channel which bring forth life.

     Harriet Power despite the odds was able to fashioned memories into art in the form of quilts. This African American woman born into slavery was able to tell stories even though she could not read. She uses her skills as a quilter to to tell her experiences and impart her knowledge. One of her quilt is  on display in the Boston'S Museum and another one in the Smithsonian. Harriet Power epitomized what a strong and powerful woman can be against all the odds.

     This piece shows the piece that is displayed in the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

     The third female artist is will talk about is Emily Dickinson. Emily is a poet and an American. She was born in 1830, she lived in physical isolation from the outside world. She did not meet a lot of people however the few which she came in contact with influence her poetry. Despite her isolation, she read intensely. Her poems were influenced by Metaphysical poets of the 17th century and the book of Revelation in the Bible.

     I would be amiss not to mention Sojourner Truth as one of our great female in art. Her art might not be of the normal but uses the little influence she has to bring to attention the issues of civil right. She delivered a speech asking  "Ain't I a Woman?" at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851. Sojourner ask the question of the audience how do they see women, she might not have the sex appeal as most of them but she is a woman in all the aspect of what a woman is. Sojourner in some ways shed some light on the male gaze as we know it.

     The fifth and last is Frida Kahlo. This is a woman who was plagued with misfortune one after another. Her misfortunes did not deter her from working on her Craft. She was not given the opportunity to exhibit her art until she was on her dying bed. Women over the years has been marginalized and discriminated against for a long period of time. It is imperative that women bond together to draw attention to this issue we are facing.