Women In Addition To Art

Here's a compendium of links to the electrical current wealth of tv set together with articles online almost Women together with Art.

BBC - The Story of Women inwards Art

This is a 3 usage serial featuring Professor Amanda Vickery, Professor inwards Early Modern History at Queen Mary College, University of London.

Her programmes explore how at that topographic point is an absence of woman individual artists on the walls of fine art galleries together with museums. She reveals the ways inwards gild together with civilization demanded women bear inwards a sure agency together with thus confined together with inhibited woman individual creativity

She examines those artists whose reputations lead maintain faded into obscurity together with comments on i of the reasons beingness the agency their artwork is currently hidden from the public. I knew or so exactly real definitely non all the artists featured inwards the programme.

All the episodes are available on BBC iPlayer

Episode 1 - Amanda Vickery tells the stories of the early on woman individual artists across Europe. This features:

Self Portrait yesteryear Sofonisba Anguissola (age 22)

• Properzia de' Rossi  (c. 1490–1530) - an Italian woman individual Renaissance sculptor together with her works the Grassi Family Crest and Joseph together with Potiphar's wife. She was the solely woman individual included inwards Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists. The proposition that is that she is non better known because of her outstanding agreement of anatomy - she knew besides much almost how the manly individual trunk worked at a fourth dimension when this was non allowed.

• Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) a self-taught nun-artist—the first-known woman individual painter of Florence, Italy and her absolutely enormous paradigm of The Last Supper (7 metres long)

• Sofonisba Anguissola (b. 1532 - 1625) - an creative individual at the courtroom of King Phillip II of Spain. She was a remarkable draughtswoman when it came to drawing people together with became a pioneer of the novel genre - the conversation piece. She impressed both Michaelangelo inwards her youth together with Van Dyck inwards her sometime age. Her most famous paradigm - featured inwards the programme - portrays her sisters playing chess - where the personalities of the 3 sisters all smoothen through. He novel fashion of portraiture attracted novel clients together with got her an introduction to the Castilian Court - at the fourth dimension of the neat rules of Castilian Court Portraiture. Her before paintings together with so transformed into courtroom portraiture painted according to the rules of the courtroom together with the time.

Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess (1555) by Sofonisba Anguissola
Oil on canvas, 72 x 97 cm
Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan

Self Portrait - yesteryear Lavinia Fontana

• Lavinia Fontana (1552 - 1614) - she was the showtime adult woman creative individual to operate inwards the same way as men. She operated exterior the restrictions of convent (Sister Plautilla Nelli) or courtroom (Sofonisba Anguissola). She was a woman individual portrait painter who produced 200-300 paintings inwards her lifetime together with was also meaning xi times. She became the portraitist of alternative amidst Bolognese noblewomen.  You tin run across some of her artwork here

• Artemesia Gentileschi (1593 - ) She had supreme belief inwards her ain talent together with science together with tackled the epic from the outset - for instance Susanna together with the Elders. Her depiction of the flush brings a woman individual perspective together with also demonstrates amazing science inwards paradigm at the historic menstruation of 17.  Violence against men features inwards her paradigm of Judith together with her maidservant - together with the assassination of Holofernes (whose caput is inwards the basket.)  This is a website almost Artemesia

Judith together with her maidservant by Artemisia Gentileschi

Still Life amongst Cheeses, Almonds together with Pretzels from circa 1615 yesteryear Clara Peeters

• The Dutch Republic inwards the 17th century also had woman individual artists.  Art inwards the Netherlands was on a to a greater extent than domestic scale. There was an obsessive preoccupation amongst the home. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel genre - the however life - was an expanse where women artists such every bit Clara Peeters, Joanna Koerten (a newspaper cutter who outsold Rembrandt) together with Judith Leyster could excel. Leyster's paradigm The Proposition is discussed inwards the programme. I was specially pleased to run across that Maria Sybilla Merian is also highlighted yesteryear the programme. She invented the concept of paradigm the life wheel of insects amongst their host plants, revolutionised scientific written report together with trekked to the torrid zone to pigment her notions of how nature should live on represented.

Episode 2 - The flush reaches the 18th century. The focus turns to the industrial powerhouse that is Britain together with the French Court of Marie Antoinette.

Episode 3 - an example of how creative opportunities for women exploded inwards the 20th century. She travels from London together with Paris to the remote Swedish countryside together with the bleak desert landscape of New Mexico. The programme features Georgia O'Keeffe.

You tin view clips from the serial online


I real much similar the enthusiasm together with historical noesis which Amanda Vickery brings to touching on her topic. She's a historian rather than an fine art critic exactly adds value because of that.

I also dear the detective flush chemical cistron - she unpicks the stories behind the paintings, she shows us the coded messages revealed yesteryear the paintings for those 'in the know'.

I'm sure as shooting going to live on next this serial through to the cease - if I don't teach at that topographic point a flake sooner. The BBC lead maintain taken the odd measurement of making the programmes available on iPlayer prior to broadcast - so yous tin access them all now!

Guardian articles

Amanda Vickery continues her theme inwards an article on the Guardian which is good worth a read

• Bring woman individual artists out of storage - This is the article written to accompany the serial together with seeks to explicate why at that topographic point so few paintings yesteryear women inwards world galleries. It's a fascinating article almost how the artworks of women artists are hidden from persuasion yesteryear curiously uninquisitive museums.
• At the same fourth dimension there's a instant article yesteryear or so other academic. In the electrical current exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In the article she states she wants to heighten questions almost the depiction of women together with challenge the association betwixt the trunk together with sex. The Cambridge intelligence covered it as Why Cambridge University don Dr Victoria Bateman dared to bare all inwards nude portrait on display at Mall Galleries inwards London

Other websites

The next focus on women artists

• The National Museum of Women inwards the Arts
• The Advancing Women's Artists Foundation
• Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence
• Wikipedia - Women Artists

The programme has prompted me to update my website All About Women Artists!

Makingamark on women together with art

I've written a few posts inwards the yesteryear almost women together with art

• Why women succeed at representing artists 12 October 2006 Called "Space Women", it's almost why women are successful at running galleries together with dealing inwards the contemporary fine art world.
• 500 years of woman individual portraits inwards western art 31 May 2007
• Three women artists win Threadneedle ... 16 May 2011 No - these were woman individual professional person artists inwards mid career betwixt the ages of 35 together with l for whom the Threadneedle Prize was an of import phase inwards the evolution of both their fine art together with their career.
• Shortlist for Threadneedle Prize 2011 dominated yesteryear women ... 08 Sep 2011 

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