Feminism in Art

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NEWSPAPER REVIEW
The New York Times writer Hilarie M.Sheets wrote an article with the heading “Female Artists are Finally Getting Their Turn” in the New York Times newspaper on the 29th March 2016. Information in this section has shown great support for feminism in the art by stating various art instances and female painters. Similarly, female artists from the past have been so withdrawn in showcasing their artistic works in galleries, museums, and exhibitions compared to the modern female artists. Hilarie notes that Georgia O’Keeffe is among the artists who declined to give their work in Los Angeles for a pivotal exhibition. Moreover, he asserts that the 21st-century galleries, museums, and art exhibitions are featuring women themed surveys, gallerists, and surge custodians and therefore, raise their commercial potential, He further asserts that such empowerment is good, especially after the women suffered marginalization over the centuries.
Important to realize, is that past exhibitions have resuscitated the careers of other. The exhibitions have helped the women artists dominate a niche and occupy a place in the largely male-dominated fields of art. This is widely shown by Gwen Chanzit who curates modern art at the Denver Art Museum (Sheets). Gwen’s work bases on her discovery of a cache of female artists to whom she referred to as women of abstract expression. The women exhibited in the major shows of the 1950s and included the likes Perie Fine and Judith Godwin.

Ms. Judith Godwin said she never thought of being included in the human show supporting women artists due to the influence from guys who told him that women from the 50s could never paint. Besides she showed her appreciation for getting a chance to be in a show of women saying as a female she struggled to venture into the art world which is seen as the male dominated field.
Sheets also states the spring show Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture in Making is a Los Angeles show that advocates for female artists who wish to join other women at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami and Saatchi Gallery in London. Information in this newspaper also states that there is a high market performer like Hesse and the huge majority of women artists. A lot has to be done to help curb the gap between the difference between the female and male performers. Important to realize, female artists are undervalued in the market with the idea that women artists could not possibly be equal to men.
JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW
Women’s Performance Art: Feminism and Postmodernism is a journal article by Jeanie Forte. Jeanie views the emergence of women performance as a particular strategy that allies postmodernism and feminism. In the early 1960s and 1970s, women used art as a way to demonstrate the objectification of women (Forte n.p.). The article views female artists as having a lot of potential posting the actual women as speaking object. The position of women intimacy is one of the most striking features appealing the women genre by that the message being conveyed is understood.
Moreover, the article views the women performance linked more on their sexuality concerning theories by Cixous, but the Anglo-American artists criticize these theories saying that if actually language and female the symbolic order then girls are incapable of representing a precise definition of art. Most women use their human body expression and strategy as a way of expressing their emotion in art.
Jeanie claims that there was more dominance of enthusiast female artist in the 1970s due to the high levels of professionalism maintained in their works. The modern women are focusing more on a manifestation of their struggles as a resistance to the economic and ideological violence, and as such it is an institution of the genderization of culture and the determination of sexuality.
The performance of women in art bear much potential as it determines an opposition to the male dominated subject (Forte n.p). Another significant factor exhibited in the women’s performance art is great need to unmask the function of a woman. These artists wanted to create a dialogue between the artwork and the viewer through the inclusion of the perspectives the women.
WEBSITE REVIEW
Many women were denied entry into exhibition because of their gender. In the 1970s, New York introduced gallery and museums, but the Women were given limited access to them. The women opted to form organizations such as the AIR Gallery and Women Artists in Revolution and to address feminist artist concerns in the art community specifically. The museums protested museums like Whitney and Museum of Modern Art leading to the rise of women artist from 10 to 20 percent (DiTolla n.p).
The feminist art movement art movement was established in the year 1960 during the anti-war demonstrations. DiTolla extensively explores female works in the early days were not being showcased as no women received any vote. Art critics too played a significant role in the 1970s pointing out that women have been entirely opted out from the Western Art Canon. Modern artists like Cindy Sherman and Tracy Emin continue to speak directly about sexists in their artistic works. For instance, Cindy Sherman has photographed different iconic roles whereas Tracy Emin focused on personal narratives.
Feminist artists examined art in a more intelligent manner in the 1980s. However, women were still far from equal representation in the field of art. More social movements came up to help fight for women fairness. A group of women known as the Guerilla Girls who fought against sexism and racism by protesting, speaking and live performances. Equally important there was a great use of humorous posters to express their views and messages. Among other feminists, artists are Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger who used mass communication as a way to draw visual vocabulary of advertising by use of both graphics and by this they are trying to help destroy the male dominance social concepts (DiTolla n.p).
Body art and feminism comes in hand in hand, and it is used to help convey precise issues facing female artists. Lucy Lippard stated, “When women use their bodies in their artwork, they are using their selves; a significant psychological factor converts these bodies or faces from object to subject.” and her message shows how the body and performance art helped in fighting against the feminism in the art world. Additionally, Dinner Party is a well-known feminist piece of art created by Judy Chicago. It is housed at the center of the Brooklyn Museum. It is a piece that feminists worked on to help them rediscover lost role for women by rewriting the past that included only the male voices.
Judy Chicago reclaimed the dominion of “high art” by including what was by tradition consigned as the lower status of the “women work.” Feminist used video art as a medium and catalyst to represent and initiate media revolution for instance artists like Dara Birnbaum used video art to reconstruct women representation by using appropriate images from television broadcastings. Textile art was also used to aid in the fight against feminism. DiTolla states that the use of video art and textile helped the viewers accept their art despite being female artists and eliminate the myth that the only male is best meant for art.
Moreover, there is the view of the use of performance art as a direct way to communicate the opinion of women. Artists like Mierle Laderman Ukeles explores an idea on domestic work in her maintenance work series and viewers had to walk around her showing the importance value that female artist have to help in. Other artists in this field are Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono who through performance acts convey a direct message on feminism.
Modernization is significantly influencing the world’s view on female artists and factors like racism in art is diminishing as more and more safeguards, art organizations and government acts are being put in place as a way to fight for female artists. More women are flourishing in the art field as they are being given a chance to put their paintings in galleries and museums. The world as a whole is required to change the idea that art is a male dominated field and there is more awareness being created. Alternative venues that are easily accessible to the public are being established by women artists to promote art for the young generations such as street exhibitions.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 DiTolla, Tracy. Art Story Modern Art Insight. n.d. 6 November 2016 <http://www.theartstory.org/movement-feminist-art.htm>.
BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 Forte, Jeanie. “Women’s Performance Art: Feminism and Postmodernism .” Theatre Journal
(1988): 19. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3207658?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 M.Sheets, Hilarie. “FemaleArtists are Finally Getting Their Turn.” (March 29.2016). Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/arts/design/the-resurgence-of-women-only-art-shows.html?_r=0