Women in art: by Ghada

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Mar 19, 2022
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Updated: Mar 28, 2022

Self portrait: Adélaïde Labille, 1785

oil canvas with two of her students, She was an advocate for women to receive the same opportunities as men to become great painters.

throughout history, from ancient times to the present... women from all around the world have participated in the visual arts in diverse and stimulating ways

Women have been & continue to be essential to the institution of art, whether as artists and inventors of different kinds of creative expression, collectors, or key contributors to the subject of art history.

For the most part, however, traditional art history has systematically excluded or masked women’s participation in the visual arts.

Instead of acknowledging the social difficulties women faced while attempting to engage with the art world, the field has often regarded women's contributions as non-existent or inferior to men's.

The majority of art historians have regarded Artwork as the peak of creative achievement, which they subsequently attributed to just a subset of masculinity.

It took the intervention of feminism in the late 20th century to begin to reshape the subject of art.

In this blog, I present to you a selection of powerfully influential women and their artwork

Artemisia Gentileschi: Baroque painter

Self-portrait, 1638

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun: portrait painter

Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782

Berthe Morisot: impressionist painter

The cradle, 1872

fun fact

Berthe Morisot was the only woman who joined the first art show of the Impressionists.

Camille Claudel: sculptor

The Waltz, 1893

Hilma af Klint: abstract painter

Adulthood, 1907

Frida Kahlo: Surrealist painter

My dress hangs there, 1933

Leonora Carrington: Surrealist painter

The ordeal of Owain, 1959.

Yoko ono: performance artist

Refugee Boat, 1960

Elaine Sturtevant: Conceptual artist & photographer

Warhol Diptych, 1973.

Shahzia Sikander: contemporary painter

Mirrat, 1990

Zaha Hadid: architect