FEMINIST ART

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• FEMINIST ART

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FEMINISM

• Background and Quick Facts
• The feminist movement refers to the efforts and
  accomplishments made internationally in the name
  of equality (politically, socially, economically
  and culturally).

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FEMINIST ART

• Background and Quick Facts
• Feminist art began in the 1960s and flourished
  throughout the 1970s .
• Feminist Art has been called "the most
  influential international movement of any during
  the postwar period" 1 and its effects continue
  to the present.
• Feminist art also attempts to change the
  foundation for the production and reception of
  contemporary art.
• Feminist Art seeks greater visibility for women
  in art and art history.

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FEMINIST ART

• Gentischelli,
• Judith Slaying
• Holofernes.
• 1611-1612

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Mary Cassat, The Childs Bath. 1893,Oil .
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Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait with Cropped Hair
, oil on canvas, 1940.
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Linda Nochlin, for example, read Black Iris III
as a "morphological metaphor" for female
genitalia, insisting that the connection is
"immediate", "concrete", and "that the two
meanings are almost interchangeable." In this
merger of botany and anatomy, Nochlin found
reflection of "the unity of the feminine and the
natural order"
FEMINIST ART
Georgia OKeeffe, Black Irises III, 1926
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979.
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Krugers work merges found photographs from
existing sources with aggressive text that
addresses the struggle for power and control. Her
trademark slogans question notions of feminism,
consumerism, individual autonomy and desire.
Interestingly enough her black-and-white images
are appropriated from the mainstream magazines
that sell the very ideas she questions!
FEMINIST ART
You Are a Captive Audience Barbara Kruger
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"The work is what it is and hopefully its seen
as feminist work, or feminist-advised work
Cindy Sherman
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Decode/ read this image in groups using a
feminist critical lens. Lets discuss!
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Jacques Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii
1786.
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Decode/ read this image in groups using a
feminist critical lens. Lets discuss!
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles DAvignon,
1907.
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Decode/ read this image in groups using a
feminist critical lens. Lets discuss!
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Joyce Weiland, Reason Over Passion, 1968.
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• Why Address Feminist Issues?

Art can question the world in powerful
ways... Female students can learn by using a
critical lens Male students can learn by using a
critical lens