Women In Art

Hildegard of Bingen

1100

Hildegard was a member of the church, but had many pieces of artwork attirbuted to her. Her artwork is a lot about her experieces of visions.

Mary Magdeline

1500

Saint Mary Magdeline was with Jesus when he was crucified, and during the resurection. In many pieces of artwork St Madgeline is protrayed as a sinner and prostitiute, but recent historians has debunked these assumptions.

Levina Leerlinc

1553

Levina was a well known miniturist and gentlewoman of the privy chamber in the Tudor court. She served 4 different monarchs and was given a substantial salary, which is why historians believe she did more paitings than credited to her.

Judith Leyster

1630

Judith was a dutch painter. Not much is known about her training, or who her masters were. After she died, she was forgotten among the art historians. Most of her work was credited to her husband or another famous dutch artist.

Mary Delany

1775

Known most for using cut paper to create art. Decoupage. She called it paper mosaiks. She created over 1000 collages.

Elisabeth Vigee-Leburn

1783

Well known artist for her time. Did over 20 portraits of Queen Marie Antionette. Spent time in multiple countries doing portraits as well as being a leader of society

Rosa Bonheur

1853

Rosa was famous for her realistic portrayl of animals. She spent a lot of time in places of animal life, watching and learning their anatomy and movement. She never married, only had companions during her life.

Anna Blunden

1854

From a struggling middle class family, she chose to go to London to study art. In 1854 she created The Seamstress. She moved from portraits to lanscapes around 1858. She spent a lot of time traveling to different countries finding lanscapes she wanted to paint.

Eva Gonzales

1874

Only formal pupil to Manet. Stuck to confines of academic salon instead of with Imprssionist group. Died young.

Mary Cassatt

1893

Part of the Impressionist group. Her artwork is mostly children and their mothers caring for them. Large influence on american art

Romaine Brooks

1923

Female activist who was a large influence on gender and sexual equality. Painted mostly in blacks, whites, and grays. She did paintings of women with purpose and heroism, instead of focusing on domesticity.

Sonia Delaunay

1925

Studied art for a lot of her life. Great influence for Fauvists and the cofounder of Orphism

Pablita Velarde

1960

Integral in sharing the Pueblo life and culture with her paintings. Painted murals in new mexico

Judy Chicago

1983

American artist focusing on birth and creation. She is a major activist in equality, to the point of not showing her art in specific shows.

Yu Hong

2012

Puts real life situations in her paintings. Uses people in her life as inspirations. Supports Chinese artists and teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Julie Mehretu

2013

Artist born in Ethiopia. Studied in 3 colleges. Family history and sexuality a large influence on her magic. Uses maps, archaelogical artifacts, lanscapes for a lot of her artwork, using situations throught time to help understand and deal with how things happened.