#women in art
Two Girls Consulting a Gipsy Fortune-Teller; British (English) School
Two of the Four Seasons: Spring by Jacob de Wit (1695–1754)
A Baby Offered up to Heaven by its Guardian Angel British School
#repost @idiano_anatole Florencia Rodríguez Giles (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1978-). I encountered work by this artist in an excellent exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York City @drawingcenter, “Drawing in the Continuous Present,” curated by @rosarioguiraldes. This is a section of “Viaje Inmóvil,” 2020. Charcoal on paper. Courtesy of the artist and Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte @ruthbenzacar. Notice the feline representation in the form of a jaguar_headed, surrealistic flotation device.
Annibale Carracci - Venus Adorned by the Graces, ca. 1590 (detail)
Italian, 1560-1609
Oil on canvas
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A Day for Women
So they created a day for women, which I think is refreshing.
But after this day is done;
Will you go back to silencing their accusations?
Will you go back to making them secondary to leadership?
Will you go back to silencing their ideas at work?
Will you go back to not acknowledging them in a room full of men?
Will you go back to assuming they are the assistant or secretary?
Will you go back to shaming them for choosing the ideology of Womanism? When Womanism chose them?
Will you go back to assuming she asked for it?
Will you go back to questioning their choice?
Will you go back to drooling over the slim-thicc, but gagging over true plus sizes?
Will you go back to questioning their ideologies when they love to cook for their partner, but shaming them for not wanting to cook at all?
Will you go back to high expectations of women, but low emotional support?
Will you go back to calling them queens, but not letting them sit at the throne?
Asking for me.
study for the head of ophelia by john everett millais (1852), alongside the completed version. the model is elizabeth siddal, aged twenty. during her sitting for ophelia, the oil lamps which heated the bathtub in which siddal was floating for the piece went out; the water went cold- millais’ studio was in a basement, and it was the winter of 1851/1852- but siddal did not disturb the artist. she eventually contracted pneumonia, but recovered and became an artist in her own right. it is unsubstantiated whether the health issues that shaped much of her life were directly related to the ophelia incident.
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moses’ mother by simeon solomon (1860)
we have merchandise! purchase your very own pre-raphaelist tshirt on redbubble, featuring a transparent elizabeth siddal as drawn by dante gabriel rossetti in 1852.
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Kupała. Wojciech Gerson, 1897. Image taken from “Catalogue of paintings removed from Poland by the German occupation authorities during the years 1939-1945. Polish paintings” / comp. Władysław Tomkiewicz ; Ministry of Culture and Art. Warsaw 1950 Editor: Ministry of Culture and Art.
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Clementina Maude (1822-1865) was an early British portrait photographer. She is considered an important figure of Victorian photography and has been praised for the artistic excellence of her work.
She produced around 800 photographs during her career, many of her teenage daughters. She was elected a member of the Photographic Society in London in 1863.
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Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) was an impressionist portrait painter, one of the most successful artists of her time in the United States. She is mostly known for her portraits of the upper class.
She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as abroad in Paris. She was awarded numerous prizes for her work, such as the Temple Gold Medal and the First Prize of the Carnegie Institute. She was also a member of the Plastic Club in Philadelphia, an organization of female artists who supported each other and their work.
Above:Autoportrait,1894
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Hello, everyone! Sorry I went MIA for a few days. I guess the pandemic would be a good enough excuse, but I had a project brewing that I am very excited to share with you.
My good friend Vlad and I have started a miniseries on amazing women of the early modern period on his brilliant history podcast, Wonderer’s History. Here is the first episode, on Italian painter and BAMF Artemisia Gentileschi.
Please share your thoughts and stay tuned for more coming soon! In the meantime, check out Vlad’s other very interesting episodes on the history of Malta, Italy and the Ottoman Empire.
On this day in 1930, the Bathysphere—William Beebe’s revolutionary spherical submersible—took its first test dive. Soon, expedition artist Else Bostelmannwaspainting deep-sea creatures human eyes had never seen and the human mind hadn’t even imagined.
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