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An iconic Gibson Girl portrait by its creator, Charles Dana Gibson, circa 1891 The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. [1]
Nakeya Brown (born 1988) is an African-American conceptual photographer. [1] She often uses hair to explore themes of Black womanhood and beauty. [2] In Time, Alexandra Genova writes "Through her confrontational images centered around beauty and hair care, Brown holds up a mirror to herself and to society, questioning the accepted rules for femininity and showing why they should be broken."
In the late 1980s, when the first major Chinese Art exhibition took place, only five women, out of sixty-seven artists and participants, were included in the show. While artists from mainland China, Taiwan , and Hong Kong , were being recognized for their diverse identities, women artists' participation in this first Chinese exhibition were not ...
By the late 1960s, there was a plethora of feminine artwork that broke away from the tradition of depicting women in an exclusively sexualized or objectified fashion. [ 9 ] In order to gain recognition, many female artists struggled to "de-gender" their work in order to compete in a dominantly male art world.
Women Friends is one of several outliers, in that the models are unknown, and the painting was not commissioned, as many of his portraits of the Viennese bourgeoisie were. [4] [5] Many of Klimt's compositions sought to portray femininity in new and radically different staging. This included potential depictions of lesbianism, incorporated into ...
"Women Painting Women" (October 10, 2016), Richard J Demato Fine Art, Sag Harbor, NY "Women Painting Women: In Earnest" (August 4 to October 2, 2017), Customs, House Museum, Clarksville, TN Curated by Alia El-Bermani and Diane Fessel [24] "Women Painting Women: A Voice with a Vision" (October 7 to November 5, 2017), RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
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 ...
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.