women artists that you should know about!!
-Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660)
During her life her works were highly recognized, but she got forgotten after her death and rediscovered in the 19th century. In her paintings could be identified the acronym "JL", asually followed by a star, she was the first woman to be inserted in the Guild of St. Luke, the guild Haarlem's artists.
-Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593-1656)
"... Si è talmente appraticata che posso osar de dire che hoggi non ci sia pare a lei, havendo fatto opere che forse i principali maestri di questa professione non arrivano al suo sapere". This is how the father Orazio talked about his nineteen year old daughter to the Medici's court in Florence.
In 1611, Artemisia got raped, and she had to Undergo a humiliating trial, just to marry so that she could "Restore one's reputation" , according to the morality of the time. Only after a few years Artemisia managed to regain her value, in Florence, in Rome, in Naples and even in England, her oldest surviving work is "Susanna and the elders".
-Elisabeth Louise Vigèe Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)
She was a potrait artists who created herself a name during the Ancien Règime, serving as the potrait painting of the Queen of France Marie Antoinette, she painted 600 portraits and 200 landscapes in the course of her life.
-Augusta Savage (Afro-American, 1892-1962)
Augusta started making figures when she was a child, which most of them were small animals made out of red clay of her hometown, she kept model claying, and during 1919, at the Palm Beach County Fair, she won $25 prize and ribbon for most original exhibit. After completing her studies, Savage worked in Manhattan steam laundries to support her family along with herself. After a violent stalking made by Joe Gould that lasted for two decades, the stalker died in 1957 after getting lobotomized. In 2004, a public high school, Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, in Baltimore, opened.
-Marie Ellenrieder (German,1791-1863)
She was known for her portraits and religious paintings. During a two years long stay in Rome, she met some Nazarenes (group of early 19th century German romantic painters who wanted to revive spirituality in art),after becoming a student of Friedrich Overbeck and after being heavily influenced by a friend, she began painting religious image, getting heavily inspired by the Italian renaissance, more specifically by the artist Raphael. In 1829, she became a court painter to Grand Duchess Sophie of Baden.
-Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (French,1841-1893)
Morisot studied at the Louvre, where she met Edouard Manet, which became her friend and professor. During 1874 she participated at her first Impressionist exhibition, and in 1892 sets up her own solo exhibition.
-Edmonia Lewis or also called "wildfire" (mixed African-American and Native American 1844-1907)
Edmonia was born in Upstate New York but she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. She was the first ever African American and Native American sculptor to achieve national and international fame, she began to gain prominence in the USA during the Civil Ware. She was the first black woman artist who has participated and has been recognized to any extent by the American artistic mainstream. She Also in on Molefi Kete Asante's list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
-Marie Gulliemine Benoist (French, 1768-1826)
Daughter of a civil servant, Marie was A pupil of Jaques-Louis David, whose she shared the revolutionary ideas with, painting innovative works that have caused whose revolutionary ideals he shared, painting innovative works that caused discussion. She opened a school for young girl artists, but the marriage with the banker Benoist and the political career Of the husband had slowly had effect on her artistic career, forcing her to stop painting. Her most famous work is Potrait of Madeline, which six years before slavery was abolished, so that painting became a simbol for women's emancipation and black people's rights.
-Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552-1614)
She is remembered for being the first woman artist to paint an altarpiece and for painting the first female nude by a woman (Minerva in the act of dressing), commissioned by Scipione Borghese.
-Elisabetta Sirani. (Italian, 1698-1665)
Her admirable artistic skills, that would vary from painting, drawing and engraving, permitted her, in 1660, to enter in the National Academy of S. Luca, making her work as s professor. After two years she replaced her father in his work of his Artistic workshop, turning it into an art schools for girls, becoming the first woman in Europe to have a girls' school of painting, like Artemisia Gentileschi, she represent female characters as strong and proud, mainly drawn from Greek and Roman stories. (ex. Timoclea Kills The Captain of Alexander the Great, 1659).
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Happy International Women’s Day! Today we celebrate all the amazing women around the world and the women who paved the way for gender equality and future generations!
Pauline Boty, 1962
Gloria Steinem with Maya Angelou on their way to the March on Washington, 1983.
Angela Davis enters a courtroom in San Rafael for a pre-trial hearing.
Gloria Steinem, 1966
Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan urge followers to sign telegrams in favor of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment.
Aretha Franklin photographed by Michael Ochs.
Joan Didion and her daughter Quintana photographed by Julian Wasser, 1968.
Marianne Faithfull, 1970s.
Jane Fonda in Rome supporting Italian feminists, 1972.
Marie Curie in Paris, 1925.
Keep in mind this is just a small fraction of women who rock. There are so many more women fighting for their rights. For example the women in Iran and the girls fighting for their right to education in Afghanistan.
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“when a girl” by Alexandre-Jean Dubois Drahonet, 1832
A young Princess Victoria, wearing a white dress with a diaphanous blue wrap and holding a small bouquet, stands in front of Kensington Palace, the queen's childhood residence. Five years later, on the morning of June 20, 1837, the princess would be awakened with the news of her uncle's death and her ascension to the throne as Queen.
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Women's History Month
I am ignorant and opinionated. That's a dangerous combination. So I try not to hurt anyone, I really do. But it's not so easy. Knowledge can be gained and confidence in ones options dialed back which take effort. Alas, I am lazy too.
March is Women's History Month. I like celebrations, and who's better to celebrate than are women!
I've been finding it hard to come up with good women's history links to post. A part of my problem stems from the urgency of political assaults on women's autonomy through law. Another, related issue, is the contentiousness of "gender" in contemporary discourse.
The always informative probablyasocialecologist posted a link to an interview by Eli Cugini with Judith Butler in Dazed about Butler's new book new book Who's Afraid of Gender, which really helped me gain some clarity.
I had not connected the centrality of Catholic doctrine to the "woke is me" gender-panic hullabaloo. Obviously Catholicism is massive and various and there are and have been many Catholics involved in the long stuggle against fascisim. Opening my blind spot helps to better cure my ignorance.
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