Holzer was involved in the Feminist Art Movement in the States emerged in 1980s. She broke the rules of fashion, and emphasized a new way of self—expression. During this period, the artist compiled a collection of rhetorical statements to create her best—known…
Edmonia Lewis was an African american sculptor.She was born July 4, 1844, she died September 17, 1907.She was the first African american female to gain international fame and recognition as a sculptor in the fine arts world..She began gaining attention during the civil war.She remains to be the only black woman who had participated in and been recognized to any degree by the American artistic mainstream.Her work was so popular in Boston, mass. That she could afford go to Rome, Italy and show off her talents in 1866.She found wide spread fame in Italy it was where she spent most of her adult career there.Lewis had many major exhibitions during her rise to fame, including one in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870, and in Rome in 1871. President…
The purpose of this assignment is to compare and contrast Giuliano Bugiardini’s Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, and the Master of Frankfurt’s Holy Kinship. Both are examples of Renaissance paintings, however, Bugiardini’s piece is an example of southern Renaissance, where the Master of Frankfurt’s is one of northern Renaissance.…
The “New Woman” concept that was growing in the 1880’s was a new advancement in the battle for women gaining respect and notoriety in America, the New Woman “agitated for suffrage and reform, pursued higher education, and made modest gains in the professional world.” (pg.374) This wasn’t the only type of reform women were also beginning to delve into athletic activity such as riding bicycles, or shopping in department stores (which was perceived as tiring) and playing golf, reshaping what was considered appropriate behavior for women. The new woman came to fame first through negative recognition, “Critics insisted that voting, higher education, and athletic endeavors would damage women’s health and undermine their femininity and that professional women’s work and increased personal freedoms would harm the middle-class family ideal.” (pg. 374) Most of these critics broadcast there opinion through illustration, depicting these new professional women to be the aggressors and appear manly in size and structure in satirical cartoons, completely flipping the ideal family structure around. Some critics viewed the new woman’s persona and body to be physically attractive, portraying them as beautiful and statuesque such as the famous Charles Dana Gibson who became an icon for new women as a symbol of the new age of American femininity emerging. Charles Dana Gibson otherwise known as The Gibson girl, portrayed as “independent, athletic, educated and confident.” (pg.375) The Gibson girl gained popularity quickly and appeared on more than just ring media, she appeared on jewelry, calendars and even had her clothing and hairstyle imitated across the nation by multiple social classes and races. The Gibson girl was a seductress, using her…
Women have sought out equality and its benefits for the longest of time. Their desire to own themselves and control the world’s perspective of women has been motivation throughout decades. Looking back as far as 1865, Women have always worked hard to care for the family even while they stood behind the man. Women used their skills to manage the home by bringing income in through making and selling clothing. There was a time when it was unacceptable for a woman’s shoulders to be bare in public, and unheard of to be seen with their belly visible. Sex without marriage was obscene as was the option of having sex with preventive methods. And they eventually won the battle of who can and cannot vote. Women struggled against men for and objective females for the right to enlist in the military. Abortion was brought to existence to protect women from birthing unwillingly. The world experienced several acts and rights to ensure women gained equality. Women tackled the world for women related changes drastically since 1865 and do not plan to back down. This paper defines that women have fought for equality in employment, fashion, voting, military choice, and even birth options; they achieved such rights through feminist acts like the women’s liberation movement and they will forever expect rightful equality.…
In part 1 of Makers: Women Who Make America it talks about how it was complicated for women in society, because they weren’t treated equally as men. People viewed women as being less capable of what man could do. When they interviewed …… she explain how women weren’t able to run in the Boston marathon. She had a good interest in running and thought women should be able to run in the marathon as well. So she sign up for the race with just her initials, and when she was in the race everyone was surprised. When she crossed the finished line she showed how women could be good at certain sports just as men. Also another scene from the movie is when women didn’t have many job opportunities as men. It was hard for them to get jobs they were criticized by men who didn’t think it was right for women to work other than stay home and take care of their family.Also when they interview Carolyn Graglia she saids all the things women at home can do which is extremely worth while is dismissed and uworthy of any respect. This made women feel as if they were unworthy to society.…
Scholderer also paints the object of Wollstonecraft’s gaze, differing from Opie’s portraits and humanizes her by giving her agency in the painting. Nochlin presents her argument against how women are looked at in art stating “the acceptance of woman as object of the desiring male gaze in the visual arts is so universal that for a woman to question, or to draw attention to this fact, is to invite derision,” she reveals the problem of the male dominated world of objectifying women. During Wollstonecraft’s lifetime, feminism and gender equality were radical ideas that were rejected by the public and reflected in Opie’s work. Although a seemingly innocent way of portraying women as staring idly off to the side or at the audience, this actually…
She chose “Harriet Beecher Stowe as her role model”(“Gilman”) being that she is her great-aunt. Gilman’s marriage and motherhood took a huge toll on her. “She broke down, depressed and hysterical, mortified that she had given up her freedom”(“Gilman”). The story she wrote was based on actual events that happened in her life. In her life she had “feeling the need to ‘serve’ by writing full-time, gave up motherhood.”(“Gilman”) Gilman was big in women’s political issues and “helping to organize a Woman’s Congress in San Francisco”(“Gilman”). Treichler, a feminist, believes that “first, through her discussion of diagnosis, she works toward a definition of ‘patriarchal discourse’; and, second, through her close reading of the story she problematizes the image of the wallpaper, thereby calling into question the notion of women’s discourse” (Gauthier 2). Seeing that the events that happened in the story were true events that Gilman went…
Ann Hamilton was born in 1956, Lima, OH, and received her BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979. She then received her MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 1985.[ “Biography”, Ann Hamilton, Accessed May 9,2016,http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/biography.html, pg 1 ] When she went to Yale School of Art for sculpture, she was a source of humor for her department head who asked her at her interview if she was done with “this weaving stuff” and laughed. Hamilton’s main inspiration come from Ohio, where she grew up and still lives. It influences with its Protestant culture where work is important.[ Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, “It Ain't Needlepoint : Ann Hamilton does old-fashioned women's work--ironing, weaving and…
This paper expounds on the life and design style of Ruby Ross Wood. Her abstract life was during the cookie cutter times of the 1900’s. During these times the everyday woman went from being a homemaker to earning wages and being a prominent member of society. It was an excellent time in history when the women of the world stood on the threshold of greatness. The world desperately needed an eccentric, intelligent, and strong female designer in the public eye who would forever change the way we look at design and what is beautiful. Being a descendent of several families prominent in America since Colonial times, Ruby Ross was destined to greatness. Her youthful charisma and sharp tongue won the hearts of many people in the public. During her years as an interior designer, Woods accomplished extraordinary things. Though many say her death cut her life and success as a designer short, she left behind many works that generations to come will still be enjoying.…
1. Jenny Holzer is an American artist, born in Ohio in the 1950’s. She received her undergraduate degree from Ohio University and continued to receive degrees from several colleges of art. These colleges included Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, The New School, and Smith College. She later moved to New York after joining Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program; where she currently lives and creates her works of art. Holzer’s father owned a Ford Dealership and her mother taught horseback riding lessons before marrying. A few artists that she was inspired by include, Tom Otterness, Robin Winters, Colen Fitzgibbon, and Diego Cortez.…
During the early 1800s, Americans generally believed that there was a definite difference in character between the sexes -- man was active, dominant, assertive, and materialistic, while woman was religious, modest, passive, submissive, and domestic. As a result, there developed an ideal of American womanhood, or a "cult of true womanhood" as denoted by historian Barbara Welter. This cult, evident in women's magazines and religious literature of the day, espoused four basic attributes of female character: piety, purity, submissiveness,domesticity.…
Every era has its minority that is vocally battling for change. For instance, today it appears that wherever you turn there is another news anecdote about the battle for gay and lesbian rights, whether it's about duty uniformity, military administration, or the privilege to wed. 150 years prior, it was a considerably bigger segment of the populace's turn: ladies. All through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, ladies battled for equivalent rights under the law and in particular the privilege to vote. In both North America and Europe in the nineteenth century, ladies and men were relied upon to fill separate circles of society. Men were required to carry on with an open life, whether it was working in a processing plant or associating…
Since humanity evolved women have been worshipped, adored, cherished and admired whilst simultaneously have been defamed, castigated, condemned, abused, maligned, raped and murdered as can be seen through the history of art.…
Fay Weldon is an English author, essayist and playwright, who has been one of Britain’s most famous novelists. In her stories, Weldon typically portrays women who find themselves trapped in difficult situations. It can be illustrated by the example of her short story “The Bottom Line and the Sharp End”.…