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Eirene Mort (1879–1977), artist, art teacher, printmaker, cartoonist, fashion designer; Celeste Mountjoy (living), artist, illustrator; Patricia Mullins (born 1952), children's book illustrator; Rerrkirrwanga Mununggurr (born 1971), bark painting; Josephine Muntz Adams (1862–1949), painter; Marrnyula Mununggurr (born 1964), Aboriginal painter
Maria Lassnig (8 September 1919 – 6 May 2014) was an Austrian artist known for her painted self-portraits and her theory of "body awareness". [1] She was the first female artist to win the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1988 and was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005.
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.
A list of notable artists who specialise in art of the female form: This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2013) A–K.
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 ...
In medieval England, the bugbear was depicted as a creepy bear that lurked in the woods to scare children. It was described in this manner in The Buggbears, [2] an adaptation, with additions, from Antonio Francesco Grazzini’s La Spiritata (‘The Possessed [Woman]’, 1561). [3] In a modern context, the term bugbear may also mean pet peeve. [4]
Peterson was born in Elgin, Illinois, on November 28, 1876, as the daughter of an Elgin Watch Company employee and a homemaker. Though she was born as Jennie Christine, she changed her name to Jane right after she graduated from high school, in 1894. [4]
This is a list of female sculptors – women notable for their three-dimensional artistic work (including sound and light). Do not add entries for those without a ...