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1400
Hildegarde of Bingen
The artist of this piece of art is named Hildegarde of Bingen, she is from Germany and a very religious woman The name of this piece is called the Dinner Party and the date is unknown of when she created it and is 13 x 30 in. in size.
With this piece of art, Hildegard's intentions were to create a balance between the religious and specular aspects of her life. As a woman she had devoted herself to this piece of artwork to create a balance in her own life. -
1453
Maria Ormani
Maria Ormani is the artist of this piece of art called Breviarium cum Calendario created in 1453. Maria was an Italian and religious nun and this picture is a self-portrait of her showing a piece of her life.
This artwork communicates the beginning of womens self-portraits and artwork all about women and how they are feeling, through the title of the piece of artwork there is a word that means calendar meaning all about her life and time on her calendar of life. -
Period: 1476 to 1492
Week 1- The Middle Ages
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Period: 1500 to
Week 2- The Renaissance
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Lavinia Fontana
Lavinia Fontana was born in 1552 and had 11 children with her husband. In 1599 Fontana created a piece of art titled “Consecration to the Virgin” showing many kids and women with one pastor in the painting. Fontana tried to combine both historical and religious views in her paintings. The painting gives off a very soft finish with not much harsh texture on the painting, a very smooth blend of all the pastels and browns in the painting. -
Elisabetta Sirani
Elisabetta Sirani was born in 1638 and became an independent painter by the time she was 19 years old. Sirani created a piece of art in 1664 titled “Portia Wounding her Thigh” which shows a woman stabbing her own thigh. Sirani explains how she chose the right moment as to when, “Portia wounded herself to test her strength of character before asking Brutus to confide in her,” (page 104). Art back then was sexualized by a woman wounding herself in a voluptuous disarray. -
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Week 3- The 17th Century
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Marie Loir
Marie Loir created a picture in 1745-1749 called “Portrait of Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet”. This painting is “one of a number of paintings by women artists of salonieres and other women intellectuals, evidence of a tradition in which women often represented women,” (Chadwick). This painting shows a woman sitting down on a chair in a room with her elbow on some sort of desk or table. In the picture the woman is grinning and seems happy. -
Adelaide Labille
Adelaide Labille Guiard created a piece of art in 1783 called “Portrait of Madame Mitoire and Her Children”. This painting shows a woman breast feeding one of her children while the other child is interacting with the mother, after reading about this picture on page 169 Chadwick explains how back then women were advised to educate young female children on the “women duties” at home. After reading how history was back then it gives a better understanding of this mom in the picture. -
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Week 4- The 18th Century
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Emma Civey Stahl
Emma Civey Stahl created this “Woman’s Rights Quilt” in the 1850’s. She made this quilt to help create a new spirit among American women. “Its series of appliqued squares show a woman engaging in what were at the time radical activities for women,” (Chadwick). This quilt was made just a few years after the first United States National Women’s Rights Convention in 1848. The colors on this are quite basic with a normal beige brown color and splashes pf color around the quilt. -
Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis created this piece of art called “Forever Free” in 1867. She created this piece of art to, “take up the subject of emancipation; [to] produce social statements on the experience of slavery using the aesthetic conventions of Neoclassicism’s idealized figures,” (Chadwick). This piece of art shows a woman "kneeling beside a male slave who raises his left arm in triumph, brandishing his broken chains and standing firmly on a cast-off ball and chain,” (Chadwick). -
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Week 5- The 19th Century
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Week 3- The 20th Century (America)
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Week 6- The 20th Century (Europe)
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Late 20th Century/21st Century
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Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker created a painting in 1907 called “Mother and Child Lying Nude”. Similar to Suzanne Valadon, Paula painted the woman as most people don’t usually see in other paintings. Another thing that was included in this painting was the display of pubic hair on this woman, not many people are aware that women grow hair and are not always perfectly shaved so it’s great to see how in the late 20th century points of view have been changing on the different views of women. -
Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Goncharova created a painting called “Rayonist Garden: Park” in 1912-1913. This painting fuses, “Fauvism, Cubism, and indigenous Russian decorative primitivism in the refracted rays of light which scatter color across the canvas surface,” (Chadwick). Goncharova created this really abstract painting with so many different textures and colors that it's almost hard for you to see the same thing as someone else might see. -
Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay created a costume for Cleopatre with Chernichova in the title role in 1918. “Delaunay produced a two-dimensional geometric ordering of discs and boldly frontal geometric designs ideally suited to the angular possessional quality of the ballets movements,” (Chadwick). “[The Delaunay's] shared their commitment to breaking free from the static quality of painting by applying the language of abstraction as widely as possible with other Dada collaborators,” (Chadwick). -
Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon created her painting called “The Blue Room” in 1923 that shows a woman who seems to be relaxing and enjoying her time. Describing this picture in detail it displays a woman laying down on some sort of bed or platform in a tank top and pajama pants while smoking a cigarette. Suzanne gave a more realistic point of view when painting this woman laying down, most male artists will paint a petite woman with beautiful features and posing in a flirty pose. -
Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop created “Virgil and Dante in Union Square” in 1932 which shows a huge picture of Union Square bombarded with people gathering in that part of the city. Isabel Bishop was a realist artist which she did a great job at executing when painting this painting. She “sought to connect the grand manner of classical tradition and renaissance composition with contemporary urban subjects,” (Chadwick). -
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo who is from Mexico City created “The Broken Column” in 1944. “In The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo presents herself in all her rawness – we see tears, pins, and pain. This is just one example of many that Kahlo created. Below, we look at this painting in more detail and how the self-taught artist depicted herself in what was almost a decade before she died,” (Artincontext). -
Monica Sjoo
Monica Sjoo created a piece called “God Giving Birth” in 1969. This artwork shows a God who is a woman since she does have breasts and other female parts giving birth to what looks like a baby, there are settings of outer space and the universe. This piece was “inspired by a goddess worshipping religion and exhibited in the woman power exhibition, aroused intense controversy and the artist was threatened with legal action on charges of blasphemy and obscenity,”(Chadwick). -
Sonia Boyce
Sonia Boyce created a piece called “Missionary Position No.2, From Lay Back, Keep Quiet And Think About What Made Britain So Great” in 1985. Sonia “stated that her paintings are about several things: they're about Africans today not using traditional music... a lot of my work has been about European masters took African artifacts... I'm trying to say a lot about the kind of swapping of culture; how both sides, how everybody is taking from everyone else,”(Chadwick).