Nevertheless she has not, until today, received as much attention in the international exhibition world as her only slightly older, Page 3 6 male, fellow painters Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Willem de Kooning, a fate she shared with
other women painters of her generation.
Not exact matches
However, for those familiar with the great
painter's works, as well as the prevailing spirit of the Era of Enlightenment and the style of the
other great artists of various mediums who used their craft to comment on the blights of the world around them, Goya's Ghosts speaks on a level that transcends just the story of two men looking after the welfare of a young, unfortunate
woman caught up in the hysteria of power that marked the end of the Spanish Inquisition's stranglehold of power, as well as the outrageous hypocrisy in their manner of governance.
Moreover he lived for circa ten years - till 1914 - in Murnau together with German
woman -
painter Gabriele Münter - they painted many landscape - paintings in open air togehter with
other Blue Rider artists, like Jawlensky, Marianne Werefkin and PauL Klee.
The feminist's first reaction is to swallow the bait, hook, line and sinker, and to attempt to answer the question as it is put: i.e., to dig up examples of worthy or insufficiently appreciated
women artists throughout history; to rehabilitate rather modest, if interesting and productive careers; to «re-discover» forgotten flower -
painters or David - followers and make out a case for them; to demonstrate that Berthe Morisot was really less dependent on Manet than one had been led to think — in
other words, to engage in the normal activity of the specialist scholar who makes a case for the importance of his very own neglected or minor master.
There are no obstacles in the way of a
woman becoming a
painter or sculptor
other than the usual obstacles that any artist has to face.
It seems clear, to take France in the 19th century as an example, a country which probably had a larger proportion of
women artists than any
other — that is to say, in terms of their percentage in the total number of artists exhibiting in the Salon — that «
women were not accepted as professional
painters.»
Greenbaum is among a generation of
women painters — Carrie Moyer and Amy Sillman are
others — reclaiming abstract expressionism.
A possible correction: I don't know abstract
painters or surrealists but I do know photographers: Ernst's
other woman «Dorothea» is likely not Dorothea Lange as stated in the first part of the article but the Dorothea Tanning mentioned in the second.
Sotheby's started the evening's
other 38 lots with the 2012 painting «Drown,» by the young Nigerian - born figurative
painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who earlier this year was the subject of a one -
woman show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla..
Early on, she became an important part of the circle that sprang up around such poets as Koch, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and O'Hara, all of whom often wrote about both the
woman and her work, and
painters like Rivers, Grace Hartigan and
others, who all admired her painting.
The Houston - based figurative
painter's solo show was inspired by Vance's current living situation, a 4 - plex apartment building shared by three
other single
women who can often hear each
other through the thin walls.
An artist who was also one of the three curators of the past Whitney Biennial, where she packed her floor of the museum with extraordinary
women painters, Michelle Grabner creates worked - over canvases that use obsessively rendered geometric patterns — often lifted from home textiles and
other distaff sources — to enormously powerful effect.
As a female
painter, Glasgow - based Lucy McKenzie believes it is important that she and
other women artists «don't just play by the rules.»
Throughout a remarkable career that has spanned more than 70 years, she continued to create work that vulnerably explored the way she came into contact with the world, often placing particular emphasis upon the disjunctions between her own self - image and the way she was seen by
others — as a
woman, as a
painter, and as a person living through the dramatic technological and cultural developments that have marked the century of her lifetime.
Most of the famous
painters she knew and admired as a young
woman — Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and
others — are long gone.
Modern stone carvers have included Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 1875), famous for his wonderfully animated Dance (1865 - 9, Musee d'Orsay); Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), who produced The Kiss (1907, Kunsthalle, Hamburg); Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959) responsible for the evocative Adam (1938, Harewood House); the Gothic - inspired German expressionist sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881 - 1919), creator of Kneeling
Woman (1911, MOMA); Henri Gaudier - Brzeska (1891 - 1915), noted for the Red Stone Dancer (1913, Tate Gallery); Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), noted for Mother and Child (1924 - 5, Manchester Art Gallery); the
painters Andre Derain (1880 - 1954), famous for his Standing Nude (1907, Pompidou Centre) and Modigliani (1884 - 1920), who always preferred to carve directly in stone; and
others.
Other ranking
women artists include South African
painter Marlene Dumas, optical illusions master Bridget Riley, Ethiopian - born artist Julie Mehretu, and Brazilian
painter Beatriz Milhazes — among
others.
As poet and
painter Elise Asher observed of lesbianism in the forties, «compared to
other women, lesbians had force and aggression when they go together — since
women had to insist more, this was an advantage.
(And Stanley Lewis, although a significant artist, is out of place here, being a generation younger than the rest of the artists — and if he's included, then why not a lot of
other younger
painters, including a number of significant
women?)
Today,
women do have important roles in society as writers,
painters, sculptors, dancers, business leaders, among
others, but they are still statistically under - represented by art institutions.
One such influential movement was
Women Painting Women, which supports and recognizes female painters from around the world who use other women as their subj
Women Painting
Women, which supports and recognizes female painters from around the world who use other women as their subj
Women, which supports and recognizes female
painters from around the world who use
other women as their subj
women as their subjects.
See also D. Dutton and S.
Painter, Traumatic Bonding: The Development of Emotional Attachments in Battered
Women and
Other Relationships of Intermittent Abuse, 6 VICTIMOLOGY 139 - 155 (1981), and F. M. Ochberg, Victims of Terrorism, 41 J. OF CLIN.