Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists Summary

In the article ‘Why have there been no Great Women Artists?’ written by Linda Nochlins, the author makes her argument and discussion on the issue in artwork of women, and feminist art history. One of the most important points that the author raised is that there are plenty of factors bringing obstacles to women in the western countries in the past, which prevent women from getting success in the art world.
At the very beginning of the essay, the author mentioned about the words from John Stuart Mill, saying that people tend to accept the things that whatever is as natural’. It makes an introduction to the main idea of the article that most of the people in the society do believe that it is ‘natural’ that there is no great women artists in the society, and this ambience can be one of the possible factors lead to the
Although there are good women artists that are not yet been sufficiently appreciated, the fact that there have not been the so-called great women artists like what the men did, is difficultly to be doubted. Moreover, it is reasonable to mention that the past experience of an artist is influential to the artwork that they produced. The relationship between social class and the artwork is of vital importance in the discussion of the art history, and also the reason of no great women artists being discovered in the past. In the context of the feminist art history, people can discover that the experience and situation of women in the society is certainly different from those of men, and hence there ought to have influence in the art production, and for woman as an artist. Looking into the question of female nude model in the artwork, there is a maintained discrimination against women from these types of art