If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many

If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many people can list five women artists? Throughout March’s Women’s History Month, we will be joining institutions around the world to answer this very question posed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA). We will be featuring a woman artist every day this month, and highlighting artists in our current exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection which explores a wide range of art-making, focusing on enduring political subjects—encompassing gender, race, and class—that remain relevant today. The show is on view until March 31, 2019.Together we hope to draw attention to the gender and race imbalance in the art world, inspire conversation and awareness, and hopefully add a few more women to everyone’s lists.Joan Semmel has produced several distinct bodies of paintings exploring the emotional and political implications of representations of the body.“Much of the revolutionary nature of feminist art has been a seeking for new forms to invent a voice free of the dominant patriarchal tradition of the past…My intention has been to subvert the tradition of the passive female nude. The issues of the body from desire to aging, as well as those of identity and cultural imprinting have been at the core of my concerns.” Posted by Chiara MannarinoJoan Semmel (American, born 1932). Intimacy-Autonomy, 1974. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Anonymous gift, 2004.117. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link
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