12 July 2018
Women artists
12 July 2018 07:14 pmOnce I have finished my WIP (and the other thing I am writing) and have time (ha!) I think I shall try to have a stab at getting more familiar with women artists.
National Gallery buys Artemisia Gentileschi masterpiece for £3.6m
The 17th-century painter’s self-portrait, which alludes to her rape trial, is only the 20th work by a woman to enter a collection of more than 2,300 European paintings
It is easy to forget how all-pervasive the [straight, white] Male Gaze is in art, and how refreshing it is to see something different.
And in the same vein, a photograph by a female photographer, looking *at* the Male Gaze:
National Gallery buys Artemisia Gentileschi masterpiece for £3.6m
The 17th-century painter’s self-portrait, which alludes to her rape trial, is only the 20th work by a woman to enter a collection of more than 2,300 European paintings
It is easy to forget how all-pervasive the [straight, white] Male Gaze is in art, and how refreshing it is to see something different.
And in the same vein, a photograph by a female photographer, looking *at* the Male Gaze:
'American Girl in Italy', 1951, an image intended to 'show what it's like to be a woman alone' according to the photographer, Ruth Orkin. The image was not contrived #womensart pic.twitter.com/1dV4GQK7w1
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) July 12, 2018