Sentences with phrase «role of women painters»

Speakers will reassess the role of women painters within this movement that has been customarily defined by heroic male painters.

In Confronting the Canvas, one discovers the significant role of women painters in the contemporary history (or «her - story») of abstraction.

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In an attempt to bring a more human face to the slaughter, Saroyan brings in a historian, an Armenian woman named Ani (Khanjian, Irma Vep), to serve as an advisor to the film, since she is an expert on the life of painter Arshile Gorky (Abkarian, When the Cat's Away), reported to have eye witnessed the events, and who is to be featured in a supporting role.

Collage, popular culture, or the mere appearance of both in paint has played a similar role for excluded voices, such as African Americans after Romare Bearden, and it is no coincidence that every painter that I have mentioned thus far is a woman.

I recently spoke with A.I.R. Gallery's Associate Director Jacqueline Ferrante, who is also a Brooklyn - based painter, about the gallery's history, how feminism has played a vital role in its mission, and some of the challenges she has personally faced as a woman artist.

Seductive Subversion includes Marisol's John Wayne sculpture, commissioned by Life magazine for an issue on movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the movie Twist around the Clock, and Home Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle Weber.