The artists depicted here are known, in my personal opinion, to be one of the most well respected and create women who defy something I like to call "personal expressionism". I believe it goes beyond feeling and expressing art into a canvas, it goes into personal emotions and what message you are trying to make the audience understand. Not to only understand their art as an art form, but to question why they expressed it in this way. Since these are women who are very confident of who they are and how discriminatory the opposite sex can be (in every point in time), they will also make you question the gender roles, then and/or now, and how society runs on superiority of one over the other.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1652/1653)Italy
"Daughter of well-known Roman artist, Orazio Gentileschi (1563 - 1639), was one of the first women artists to achieve recognition in the male-dominated world of post-Renaissance art. In an era when female artists were limited to portrait painting and imitative poses, she was the first woman to paint major historical and religious scenarios."(Brash) She expressed her art form based, not solely but, on her own emotions and opinions of the gender roles. She was sexually assaulted by Agostino Tassi (friend of her father) and broke his promise to marry her (this would erase the crime), she expressed herself into the canvas the way she felt about men and societies view of women. She allowed her emotions to express her art form that many art historians don't seem to be impressed by.
Self Portrait, 1960s
Mexico
She was the most self expressive, personally expressive person artist of her time (and probably throughout history in general). Her art form was very surreal and altered the perspective of herself within the canvas through objects and placement of herself. This may be misleading to others, but she drew in this matter because she felt challenged by life itself and how it can take it's toll on the human body and sprit. She often showed signs of pain and suffering, very few in plain environments. She wasn't afraid of pushing the limits of human perception and wanted to express her way of understanding the pain she went through(complicated relationship with Diego, accident that left her paralyzed).
The Broken Column 1944
Newark, New Jersey
Now this artist is still active in the art world, but her take is on more of the Graphic Design world (my favorite GD artist). Her most famous art form is the black and white copies of images taken from pop culture of her time(1980's) and placing white lettering with altering fonts and red background on top of the images and the type would question and/or contradict what the image originally portrayed. It pushed the limits of current societal norms and put her own opinons of women's role in society. She expressed herself to the fullest and to manage to expand her career as a female artist astounds me.
Not stupid enough, 1997
Serbia
She is well known to express her art by using her body as a canvas. She used her body because she wanted to know the limitations of her own body, mind and spirit. The ability to stay still and stare at someone for hours at a time like she did in her exhibition The Artist is Present, it pushed people to understand her without having any dialog. Through herself she is able to express her personal resolve to make people understand who she is as an artist without a separate
medium like the typical canvas.
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Sally Mann (May 1, 1951- )
Lexington, Virginia
She started her career through photographs of nature in it's purest form. Her subjects changed and added her daughters and family into her work to symbolize how people are part of nature and aren't separate, despite our need to live and depend on modern technology and our perception of superiority (above the world). Maybe it's just these two images that i get this from but, i see her way of expressing her opinions similar to Barbara Kruger in the way she questions the roles of women through the simple process of adding and element and removing it. Her photography was astonishing to see in person (Newark Museum). Seeing both of these images separately without seeing the other has some little meaning, but together it creates something more. It shows how we should perceive our youth(Jessie as Jessie) and how we shouldn't expect them to (Jessie as Madonna). Jessie as Jessie
Jessie as Madonna
Sources:
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. 4th ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1990. Print.
Brash, Larry. "The Life and Art of Artemisia Gentileschi." The Life and Art of Artemisia Gentileschi. N.p., 1990. Web. 29 Nov. 2012. <http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/index.shtml>.
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