Many of her works tend to hold feminine and masculine elements in a unique, serious, and charming way. Gracie Falk started her thriving career as a painter, but also divulged into the world of ceramic sculptures and installation work. At the age of thirty-four, she had a sudden realization: “I thought, I don’t want to hear another person’s opinion. I know what to do…I don’t need to be helped along” (“Underrated Canadian artist: Gathie Falk”). She then left her teaching job, which was unusual for a woman during that time, and started travelling throughout Europe.
Silva Hakopyan RESEARCH PAPER An iconic figure and arguably the most influential female painter of Mexican heritage, Frida Kahlo’s, whose life was completely transformed at a young age. Frida Kahlo’s paintings were based on her own physical and emotional struggles. Her paintings described the pain she had to suffer after the tragic accident which nearly killed her in the year , 1925. As well as the passion and turmoil that characterized her marriage to famed muralist, Diego Rivera. Through her actions and commitment to social movements such as the communist party, she expressed her radical ideals.
Biography: Frida Khalo Frida Kahlo has once said, “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” As her main inspiration, Frida has produced over seventy self-portraits that reflect her most dramatic works that not only followed her face and feelings but also the events in her life. Her work was a rare blend of love, loss, pain, surgery and most often her un-denying passion for her husband, the equally great Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera. What passed through Frida’s mind were some of the most originals and dramatic images of our century which she fittingly combined with her strong Mexican roots that stimulated the incentive to speak to her people. One of the most influential events in Frida's life was one of the most tragic as well, at the age of fifteen; Frida partook in a disastrous bus collision that left her almost destroyed. The accident was traumatizing and took a life-long battle to fully understand for the event made it impossible for Frida to bare children.
What major contributions did women make to the arts in the nineteenth and twentieth century? Female artists managed to dominate in high arts facing many difficulties in training, trading their work and gaining recognition. They contribute to the arts especially during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Women involved in making art increased in Europe after the French Revolution during the nineteenth century. Firstly, amateur talents in drawing and watercolour were encouraged as part of a good bourgeois education in the upper-class milieu.
I’ve been curious about Georgia O’Keeffe, since my second job in the 80’s when it was popular to sell Nagel, Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keeffe prints. “O’Keeffe’s landscapes and still life’s are among the most reproduced paintings in popular media” (Carlin, 2009). I always wondered what O’Keeffe was thinking about while she was painting, since all I saw was sexual imagery disguised as flowers. Many art critics came to the same conclusion, which Georgia adamantly denied, but a few critics state she accentuates the sexuality within each object. Georgia insisted the abstract sexual imagery was in the eye of the beholder, and not her intention.
It started through her paternal grandmother, who shaped her artistic edges by teaching to play the piano and exposing her to some of the greatest composers in the world. Beethoven was who she admired the most, igniting her curiosity in other composers, painters and sculptors from the same era, which influenced her life and her art. Rock stars want to be her, and perfect housewives live through her. In Kat’s opinion, some of the most random viewers passionately tune in to her hit show “LA Ink”, which follows her life and her job as a tattoo artist, portraying her as one of the world’s most eminent tattoo artists. Kat herself is aware of this impact, as people very often approach her on the streets, asking questions about the stories of her many tattoos that cover her body.
They admired her also because she dealt with the problems of being a woman painter in a macho society. Finally people were encouraged by the fact that Frida was still painting and creating beautiful portraits, despite her falling health and infamous husband who notably betrayed her by having affair with her sister. I am reading the book “Frida Kahlo’s Legacy”, and overall my reaction to that book poetics of self has been positive. My experience as a reader is enjoyable and I’d recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the history of the Latin-American world, especially to those who wonder what was the role of women in Mexican society. Frida Kahlo in my opinion was an amazing woman.
Alice Neel, born in 1900, is known as one of the greatest American painters during twentieth century. As well as being a pioneer among women artists, Neel is often remembered for shunning avant-garde movements, often preferring to paint in her own unique style. Often a painter of people, landscape and still life, her works are often influenced by the expressionist movements of northern Europe and Scandinavia and reflect her strong social conscience and equally strong left-wing beliefs. During the 1930s she enrolled as a member of the Works Progress Administration in New York. It was during this time that she painted much of her urban scenes.
Mulvey categorizes Sherman’s usage of femininity in her artwork as an appearance in which the insistent sexualization of woman is integrated into a style of respectability. One of Sherman’s works that Mulvey writes about, that I found very interesting and displayed this style of femininity and emotion was her series Untitled Film Stills. It was in this series that Mulvey states how Sherman developed her photographs in black and white to portray the 1950’s neo-realism ideas. What was interesting about this series by Sherman, was that she used herself as the model for all of her photographs, while also coming up with the wardrobe, setting, and props for her photograph. This is something that is both fascinating and impressive, about Sherman’s work that Mulvey really focuses on.
Before Marilyn’s death, she had accomplished a lot for women in the U.S.’s society. Marilyn was known for being a sex symbol. She was one of the first women to be overly sexual and play sweet naïve, and innocent