The C.U.N.T Cheerleaders, at Fresno State College (1971)
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Judy Chicago — Peeling Back (etched laminated and mirrored glass with acrylic, 2000)
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Judy Chicago American artist, b. 1939
Return of the Butterfly ,2012
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Judy Chicago, Immolation, 1972. Archival pigment print, 36 x 36 inches. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the artist.
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Unraveling the Petals of Judy Chicago's 'Through the Flower, 1973': A Pioneering Work of Feminist Art
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Plates from The Dinner Party (1974-1979), with raised central motifs based on vulval, floral, and butterfly forms, and rendered in styles appropriate to the individual women being honoured, by American feminist artist, art educator, and writer, Judy Chicago, born in 1939.
Judy Chicago is known for her large collaborative art installation pieces focusing on images of birth and creation, which examine the role of women in history and culture.
Complete work (image in comments with a closeup) ceramic, porcelain, textile, 14.63 x 14.63 m, 47' 3" x 47' 3" approx
Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, comprises a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table, symbol of equality, with a total of thirty-nine place settings, each commemorating an important woman from history. The settings consist of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates with three-dimensional designs representing individual women, resembling flowers, butterflies, and female genitalia. The names of another 999 women are inscribed in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table.
The individual plates pictured are:
Top, left to right:
Primordial Goddess plate
Virginia Woolf plate
Theodora plate
Bottom, left to right:
Saint Bridget plate
Hatshepsut plate
Boadaceia plate
China paint on porcelain, diameter 35 cm, 14 in approx
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“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Disrupt: artists
Judy Chicago: first artists I found when I looked for artists linked to my project. She's a feminist artist, and this is one of her most known artworks : the Dinner Party. She represented some other feminist in her work, like Georgia O'Keeffe or Susan B. Anthony.
Kiki Smith: for Kiki, everybody has it's own unique experience with their body, and it's reflected in her work.
Georgia O'Keeffe: I mentioned her already, but I really love her work. She paints, and her work often has a representation of life and death (flowers, skeletons...) and vulvas painted in such a way that it can be mistaken for flowers.
Katerina Marchenko: it's a Russian embroidery artist I discovered last week, and I really love what she does. She often embroiders on tulle, so it looks like the thread just floats, and I think that sometimes it really can be mistaken with a painting (with a weird texture but still)
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Judy Chicago
Red Flag (1971)
Although the action of removing a tampon is so common for people with periods, seeing this action in art form causes many emotions. I showed this piece to a few of my friends. Some had positive reactions but most however gasped, gagged and had mostly disgusted reactions. It is a very intimate image, with the tampon being the central focus of the piece. I was very intrigued when I first saw the image as it took me a few moments to actually understand what I was looking at. I love the contrast of the dark background with the vivid blood red tampon. I was slight taken aback because of how personal it was but it is the reality.
Menstruation Bathroom (1972)
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