Not exact matches
Most of us probably
think of Rubens as a
painter of
women whose body shapes are now decidedly out of fashion.
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.
This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows of British Abstract Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good
painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the
painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at
Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy,
think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract
Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the
Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!
He
thinks Riley isn't currently wearing the greatest living British
painter crown because she's a
woman.
I had never really
thought about that, but there was this kind of overblown macho masculinity thing, and the
women painters who were involved sort of had to be that way, too.
These famous female
painters created fascinating body of work that completely contradicts everything you
think you knew about the so - called
women art.
While the history of art is punctuated with epic painting projects by men — from Giotto to Michelangelo to Diego Rivera — the director of SFMoMA, Neal Benezra, said he was «hard - pressed to
think of another
woman painter working at this scale in a public place.»
(both chuckle) I don't
think women in any way were a threat to these men, so they could encourage the «lady
painter.»
Roger
thought Ivon was a great
painter (though he said that he couldn't paint
women).
The
painter recalled an incident when a boorish man at a party began to ask her and Joan Mitchell, «What do you
women artists
think...?»
Before the opening of Jenny Saville's breakout show at the Saatchi Gallery, critic David Sylvester said he «always
thought women couldn't be
painters» because «that's just the way it's always been».
Often overshadowed, either because of their artist husbands (de Kooning, Krasner) or for living outside of New York City (Sonia Gechtoff), the
women Ab - Ex
painters in this show will hopefully help to change the
thinking behind this historic art movement, which had generally been viewed as predominantly male — even particularly macho — until recently.
Looking at this, as at the absent
Women, it seems perverse if not actually impossible to
think of De Kooning how he was once seen, as an abstract
painter: he was as embedded in the experience of landscape and mutable light as the American «luminist» Martin Johnson Heade had been out there among the dunes a century before.
«I felt that they treated me equally, that they weren't
thinking of me as a
woman painter, but as another
painter,» Gechtoff said.
Think of Vir Heroicus Sublimus,
Woman I, Lucifer or a drip
painter's automatic self - portraiture.