Marely Fontanez

Art and Women

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Judithe Hernandez

Judithe Hernandez was born in 1948 in Los Angeles, California. She began her career in the midst of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. She had a great influence in Chicano art. In the beginning of her career she gained recognition from her murals. She was a member of Los Four, a Chicano artist collective. The group focused on bringing Chicano Art to the mainstream art world. Her later works consist primarily of pastel on paper. Her works often demonstrated social tension of gender roles and also included indigenous figures. 

“Remembering the Dead” by Judithe Hernandez

This is one piece of artwork from Hernandez’s, Juarez Series. The Juarez Series is full of artwork in respect to a chain of murders of young women in Juarez, Mexico. The murders began in the 1990s. The official number of murders is 800 but it is said that the number is possibly much greater. No significant investigation has been put in place to solve these murders.

“Homenaje a las Mujeres de Aztlan” by Judithe Hernandez

This mural is located in Los Angeles in the Ramona Garden Housing Projects. It is dedicated to the strong women of Mexico who have fought for the well being of their family, country, and people.

https://www.judithehernandez.com/

MINI POST- Cindy Sherman

Karan Patel

Art & Women

Professor Cacoilo

Cindy Sherman is a female artist that was born on January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey where she was the youngest out of her five siblings. Shortly after her birth, her family had moved to Huntington, Long Island. Unlike many artists, her parents did not come from an artistic background (her father was an engineer and mother was a reading teacher). Sherman did not discover her artistic interest until college where she first set out to study painting. However, she eventually felt unfulfilled with holding a brush, feeling too many limitations of the expressions paintings in anything beyond a visceral way and so decided to pick up a camera.

Her most famous work "Untitled Film Stills" consists of a collection of photographs she takes of herself, putting herself in multiple roles of 20th century female clichés  such as the housewife, the woman in distress, the prostitute, etc. Sherman leaves her photos open-ended which in turn leaves most of the interpretation to the critic/viewer of her artwork.

Untitled #35

This photograph she took of herself dressed as a housewife is only one of the many photos in her collection that could be interpreted in anyway possible.





https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/sherman/jpgs/sherman35.jpg
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/collection_images/3/369.1986%23%23S.jpg










http://www.cindysherman.com/biography.shtml

Georgia O'Keeffe

Derrick Safan 

Georgia O'Keeffe Is an American artist who studied at the School of Art Institute Chicago and later on at the Art Students League of New York. O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin on November 15^th 1887, and had had man great accomplishments during and after her lifetime. She was prized with the League’s William Merit Chase still-life award for her beautifully made still life which portrays a dead rabbit laying near a pot (known as Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot). And was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. O’Keeffe is best known for her (Japanese style) abstract art of flowers which embodies nature and the natural world. Though she created many great works and had many great accomplishments O’Keeffe suffered through a male dominated art world and was told many times in her life that she would only amount to being an art teacher. 

As a successful student, she was able to duplicate her teacher’s paintings one being the Dead Rabbit with copper Pot which provided her the opportunity to gain a scholarship and continue her studies.

MINI POST: Angelica Kauffman

Self-Portrait - Angelica Kauffman

In the year 1741 in Chur, Switzerland a female artist by the name of Angelica Kauffman was born. Known as a child prodigy for her excelled work Kauffman was proficient in both art and music. Angelica received early exposure to art from her father who went by the name of Johann Joseph Kauffman. Johann specialized in mural paintings. Johann taught his daughter everything she needed to know about art making her his young protégée. Growing up she was her fathers assistant which gave her the opportunity to travel all over to different countries like Italy and Austria. Through her travel Angelica learned a new type of art by the name of Neoclassicism.

What is Neoclassicism? Neoclassicism was the name of the Western movements in different types of art such as, literature, theatre and architect. The art movement of Neoclassicism draw inspiration from classical art and culture of ancient Greece and/or Rome.

Angelica's most famous work is that of a self portrait of herself torn between both music and painting. She named this painting "Self-Portrait Torn Between Music and Painting, 1792."

MINI POST:Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger
Her work being so simple yet so loud, caught the attention of many. "I shop therefore I am" was ironically adopted by the mall generation as their mantra. The economy of Kruger's use of image and text tells a direct communication with the audience. With her caption, she unifies a critique about society, the economy, politics, gender, and culture. Her work being so intriguing and interesting. Almost as if she was explaining in right in front of me. Her works aim to sell an idea to the viewer that is meant to instigate a reconsideration of ones context.

She was best known for the silkscreen prints in which she placed a candid and eye-catching caption on the photograph. She layers found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. As well as her prints mostly from the 1980s wittily encased some of the policies President Reagan promoted with a form of satire that practically ridiculed but weren't meant to offend. She mainly focused her art on feminism, consumerism, classicism and individual autonomy. 

MINI POST: Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo is one of the most known painters through ages. She was born on July 6, 1907, In
Cayocoan, Mexico City, Mexico. She was married to Diego Riviera also a well known artist. At the age of 18, she started he paintings after she was severely injured in a bus accident. She is well known for her thick eyebrows and mustache which gave her a masculine look. She is a known feminist icon because of her lifestyle that was against all the norms back then. She painted self-portraits where she stated "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best". 

As shown in the picture, Frida is the one on the far left, wearing a man's suit unlike her two sisters wearing dresses. Her posture talks about her too, being fierce and brave. 

A self Portrait by Frida Kahlo, titled as "The Broken Column". 
The portrait explains the pain she went through after he bus accident. 



















http://www.biography.com/people/frida-kahlo-9359496#tumultuous-marriage
http://rosierespect.org.au/news/6-reasons-why-frida-kahlo-is-a-feminist-icon/
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/frida_kahlo.html