Professor Cacoilo
Art and Women
Post 4
Women have been placed in the background in society where
white males dominate the artistic world of creativity today. Strong
artistic women have come forth with letting their art be explored and
allowing their work to no longer be ignored in the artistic world. By
standing up against male artist that simply cannot or will not give them a
platform they have made a strong one for themselves by shaming the male gaze
and becoming a force to be reckoned with.
Contemporary women artists of today have a way of expressing themselves with
meaning and to teach viewers a different way of viewing artists and their
work. Most of the women are feminist
that believe their art should be given credit for and seen by the world; it is
time to put an end to the boring male gaze and get a sense of
what really goes on in society with meaningful creativity. The
five artists to name a few that I will be focusing on are Suzanne Lacy, Maria
Montoya, Thelma Johnson, Eva Hesse, and Ana Mendieta.
Suzanne
Lacy was a feminist artist that protested about rape in her public art by
bringing together women on a larger scale by being public. Her message was going to be out to protest and support all women of all cultures to stand up and let their voices be heard through an artistic fashion. Many gathered to help with the feminist movement to make people aware.
In Mourning and In Rage media performance at Los Angeles City Hall, December 13, 1977, Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus. Gelatin silver prints documenting the event by Susan Mogul. 7 15/16 x 10 3/16 in. The Getty Research Institute, Lawrence Alloway Papers, 2003.M.46. Photo courtesy of Susan Mogulhttp://blogs.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/people/suzanne-lacy/
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1mmzxRz6P1qiaw1ao1_500.jpg
Leslie Labowitz & Suzanne Lacy – Three Weeks in May (Performance)
According to Chadwick, "It brought women together to address the media's sensationalized coverage of a series of murders and, more generally, the spread of violence against women in American cities"(375). Women were going to be inspired for the near future to be able to gather feminist and combat all social issues from being oppressed in society. Chadwick writes, "Lacy and Labowitz founded "Ariande: A Social Network," an organization intended to bring together women in the arts, media, and government who were committed to feminist issues" (375-6).Maria Montoya started a movement by traveling all over America to showcase her talents with everyone gazing at her fine art through her families history. Guerilla girls mentions, "Maria, whose Native American name was Poveka, was born in the Tewa pueblo of San lldefonso in New Mexico sometime in the 1880's" (82). She made nontraditional pottery with her sisters as well as her husband selling over hundreds of her distinctive pottery pieces here in the USA.
http://fairviewartroom.weebly.com/maria-montoya-martinez.htmlMaria Martinez, BOWL, NATIONAL MUESUM OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUION, WASHINGTON D.C., GIFT OF THE IBM CORPORATION/ART RESOURCE, NEW YORK
Thelma Johnson was a beautiful black women being the first African American artist whose work can be found at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. People did not only recognize her, but they recognized her paintings as well. Her style was through dancing while exhibiting her work while being an early multiculturalist. According to Guerilla Girls, "She was called "a sensation" But the press couldn't get over the fact that she was black. The Oregon Journal in 1934
headlined an article on her "Colored Girl to Exhibit Paintings" (83). Thelma Johnson was in her early twenties at the time she and her husband traveled together as he worked for her in the U.S. while raising monies for diverse children in Hawaii. 
Mural Study - The Negro’s Contribution to Medicine and Veterinary oraScience, c. 1945http://www.chicagomodern.org/images/art/Streat-Negro-Contribution-to-Med-Resized.jpgEva Hesse changed the course of contemporary art dying at 34 did not tarnish her legacy making her a respected by the male artists. According to Guerialla Girls, "Eva was a Jewish refugee, emigrating to New York from Germany(via Holland) with her parents in 1939"(88). Eva was an inspired painter that turned into a sculptor elaborating or sexuality and humor.
Repetition Nineteen III
Eva Hesse(American, born Germany. 1936–1970)
1968. Fiberglass and polyester resin, nineteen units, Each 19 to 20 1/4" (48 to 51 cm) x 11 to 12 3/4" (27.8 to 32.2 cm) in diameterhttps://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/eva-hesse-repetition-nineteen-iii-1968
Eva Hesse Series of sandfilled stockings. (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970), was a Jewish German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. Her art is often viewed in light of all the painful struggles of her life including escaping the Nazis, her parents' divorce, the suicide of her mother when she was ten, her failed marriage and the death of her father.https://www.pinterest.com/atelierjody/eva-hesse/
Eva Hesse Series of sandfilled stockings. (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970), was a Jewish German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. Her art is often viewed in light of all the painful struggles of her life including escaping the Nazis, her parents' divorce, the suicide of her mother when she was ten, her failed marriage and the death of her father.https://www.pinterest.com/atelierjody/eva-hesse/Ana Mendieta was a sculptor that demonstrated performance and conceptual by utilizing objects for her. Guerilla Girls states, "Siluetta series in which she lay down, traced the outline of her body in earth, then lined with sticks, stones, and flowers, then ignited it with gunpowder and firecrackers. Also known to have smeared herself with blood and feathers" (89). Ana Medieta has left the art world too soon it amazes everyone that she had so much more in store in pushing the envelope.
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| Using my body as a reference in the creation of the works, I am able to transcend myself in a voluntary submersion and total identification with nature. “ (Ana mendieta, 1978) |
Bibliography
(Ana mendieta, 1978)
https://jovanovicluna.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/ana-mendieta-i-zemlja-kao-ostatak-pravog-tela/
Eva Hesse
(American, born Germany. 1936–1970)
1968. Fiberglass and polyester resin, nineteen units, Each 19 to 20 1/4" (48 to 51 cm) x 11 to 12 3/4" (27.8 to 32.2 cm) in diameterhttps://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/eva-hesse-repetition-
Eva Hesse Series of sandfilled stockings. (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970).https://www.pinterest.com/atelierjody/eva-hesse/
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1mmzxRz6P1qiaw1ao1_500.jpg
Leslie Labowitz & Suzanne Lacy – Three Weeks in May (Performance)
| http://fairviewartroom.weebly.com/maria-montoya-martinez.htmlMaria Martinez, |
Thelma JohnsonMural Study - The Negro’s Contribution to Medicine and Veterinary oraScience, c. 1945http://www.chicagomodern.org/images/art/Streat-Negro-Contribution-to-Med-Resized.jpg
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