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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]
[4]: 167 In addition, the many elements of vision make viewers think about how women are perceived in society and how these women see and alter themselves for the public eye. [4]: 165 Art historian Cindy Kang observes that even though many of Morisot's feminine images have aspects of sensuality, art critics at the time did not perceive her ...
She uses her art to construct a physical and allegorical space framed through a Black feminine eye, weaving stories about situation, meaning, and influence. [5] Blas's photographs explore Black identity, particularly young Black women and girls.
Gogi Saroj Pal (3 October 1945 – 27 January 2024) was an Indian artist. She worked in multiple media, including gouache, oil, ceramic and weaving. Her works usually had women as their subject, and many of her paintings had a fantastical element that commented on the female condition.
Margaret D. H. Keane (born Margaret Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 – June 26, 2022) [1] was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media.
A woman, thought to be the artist's mistress, stands behind him, but he does not look at her. [3] In The Eternal Feminine, by contrast, Cézanne places the woman in the center of the canvas, and she displays her body with no shame, unlike the woman in Courbet's painting, who holds a drape to partially cover her body.
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 ...
The woman's eyes are half-closed and completely ignore the outside world and viewer, while her mouth is slightly shaped into an ambiguous smile, evocative of the Mona Lisa. [3] Other than her face that takes up most of the painting, the rest of the painting is barely even sketched in, with a primed, but unpainted, background. [ 4 ]