Monday, 10 June 2019

More Than Muses - module 3 - movers and shakers

Week 1  Double Standards.

Katy Hessel - Victoria Miro Gallery.  Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists.

Alice Neel.  Linda & Daisy 1973. Under-representation of women in art.  Women often gained recognition at end of life or at death.

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Women are present but written out of or forgotten by history.

Anguissola.  Supported by father - who had 6 daughters before his first son.  Self portrait with Bernardina Compi (her art tutor).  She makes herself 1.5 times bigger.  And he's the one putting in the details on her dress - ie the role normally given to the assistant.

Levina Teerlin. c1510-1576.  Minaturist. Took over from Holbein - and was paid more!


Clara Peeters.  Presence of artist.  Self reflected in goblets.  Cannot be wrongly attributed!

Gentileschi (1593-1653) Dramatic.  Women exacting revenge

Elizabetta Sironi.  Plain living and high thinking.  1638-1665

Judith Leyster 1609-1669

Angelica Kauffman 1741-1807

Katsushiki Oi (Hokusai's daughter) 1800-66

Edmonia Lewis 1800-1866.  African American scuptress.  Sculpted abolitionists.

Margaret Macdonald1865-1933 and Frances MacDonald.  Inspired Klimt.  1st women students at GSA.    Evolved their own decorative interior design style.  Glasgow school.  MM did not work after 1921.

Berthe Morisot.  Painting en plein air.  Swift brush strokes.  Tender and melancholic.  French middle class work.

Hilma of Klimt.  1862-1944.  Rarely exhibited.  World not ready for them.  No show for 20 years.  Kept to self.

Hannah Hock 1889-1978.  Dada.  Artmaking opposed to WW1.  Ignored females - object  not muse.  Spliced newsprint for political satire. Supported birth control and suffrage. Stood up to commercial exploitation of clothing.

Barones Elsa con Freytag Loringhoven.  (Duchamps Fountain was originally hers!  She wrote a letter to him about it and signed it R Mutt! Recently this letter was found).

Gertrude Abercrombie 1909-77.  Surrealist.  Career from 1932-71.  Empty stillness and silence. Dream states.

Hannah Ryggen.  1894?  1909-77.  Weaver.  Used own wool from sheep.

Lee Miller.  Surrealist photographer.  Raped as a child - ended up with gonnoreah.  Posed nude for father.  Independent.  Modelled for Vogue - Man Ray.  In Paris - solarisation experiments.  NY photo studio.  Angrogenous name -helped career.  War photos.

Ruth Asawa.  1926-2013.  Black Mountain College.  Sculpture - woven wire.  Economy of line.  Mother of 6.  Advocated free art education.

Lee Krasner.  1908-1984.  Jackson Pollock's wife.  NY.  Women's Art School.  Her art stronger than his but gets overpowered by his persona.

Alice Neel.  Dramatic black outlines, pale background, scars.  Real pregnancy images.  Awkward and transitioning bodies.  Devoted to her style of painting.

Judy Chicago.  Iconic work 1974-79.

Guerrilla Girls. 1985-date.

Lubaina Himid.  British Black Art Movement.

US Museum art collections by gender. 83% men, 85% white.



Art's Double Standards.  Katy Tarbard

Morality, philosophy, good and bad.  Can we separate the life of the artist from their work?  Look at the narrative and appeal of heir work.  Art history has always celebrated the bad boys.  Different ways of judging male and female artists, and how they raise their children.

Sam Taylor Wood, and Alan Johnson.  She was in her late 40s and he was a teenager when they had a relationship.  She was a YBA, nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997, yet if you put her into Google, images of her and her boyfriend appear, not of her and her work.   Women still get over-sexualised.

Morality in Art.  Damien Hirst - dating younger girl - Google brings up him and his work.

Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.  Triplets.  Both parents were artists.  Farmed them out to nurseries and then boarding school.  Her guilt came out in her art.  Nothing about the impact on him.  Emotion?  Old fashioned parenting - no attachment from men.  Over-egged?  Nourished by rich life - even when she could only work at the art half an hour a day, she was thinking about it all the time.  Hepworth voiced her frustrations.

Lucien Freud.  14 children.  Less acceptable?

Turner - many unacknowledged children.  Creative visionary genius?  Ruskin (Turner's big supporter) burned much of Turner's sketchbook heritage - on the grounds it was porn - many drawings of female pudenda - Ruskin deemed them 'inexcusable'.  Victorian morals.

Genius deemed to be morally good?  But the myth of the artistic genius reverses this idea?

Michelle Hartney.  Own Art History labels.  How to write contemporary art history labels.  Ignore the genius without ignoring the consequences of their genius.

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