The Feminist Art Movement
Female artists were not acknowledged before this movement began, their experiences as artists were ignored in addition to male artists and they called for a revolution. They created a group (WAR), women arts in revolution, because the male artists would not protest on behalf of the women. WAR began protesting against galleries for not exhibiting their work because it was all male based art and the women were not aloud to train as artists or exhibit their work. They demanded that female art be considered into exhibitions and studies from all cultures and periods. In 1971 a contemporary art critique named Linda Nochlin wrote an Article called Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? - (Web Link To Article) she writes "Why have there been no great women artists?" The question tolls reproachfully in the background of most discussions of the so-called woman problem. But like so many other so-called questions involved in the feminist "controversy," it falsifies the nature of the issue at the same time that it insidiously supplies its own answer: "There are no great women artists because women are incapable of greatness."
The assumptions behind such a question are varied in range and sophistication, running anywhere from "scientifically proven" demonstrations of the inability of human beings with wombs rather than penises to create anything significant, to relatively open minded wonderment that women, despite so many years of near equality and after all, a lot of men have had their disadvantages too have still not achieved anything of exceptional significance in the visual arts."
I enjoyed reading this article because I found it interesting how things have changed for female artists they were deemed inferior for their art and general existence because they were women although still human. Some of the greatest artists have been female and I think accepting all types of art is important because women have experiences that men will never understand and vice versa. But because they are female their work was ignored.
The assumptions behind such a question are varied in range and sophistication, running anywhere from "scientifically proven" demonstrations of the inability of human beings with wombs rather than penises to create anything significant, to relatively open minded wonderment that women, despite so many years of near equality and after all, a lot of men have had their disadvantages too have still not achieved anything of exceptional significance in the visual arts."
I enjoyed reading this article because I found it interesting how things have changed for female artists they were deemed inferior for their art and general existence because they were women although still human. Some of the greatest artists have been female and I think accepting all types of art is important because women have experiences that men will never understand and vice versa. But because they are female their work was ignored.
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