Jaiheer Rogers

Prof. Caçoilo

Art & Women Modernism

March 3, 2017

 Post 3

 Modernism is a movement in western art that consist of "impressionism, post-impressionism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, dad a-ism, surrealism, expressionism, abstract expressionism, which all together makes up this new modern movement(Guerilla Girls p.59). At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, revolution was the rationale in society. Some people wanted change and so did the woman in Art History. This was a time where opportunities in the city were given to woman and woman artist wanted to change art. Some women used abstraction as a new trend in art history. In a number of European capitals paintings and sculptures all had abstraction in it. Chadwick emphasized "Its course, inextricably bound up with the formal developments of Post Impressionism and Cubism and with desire to break with nature and infuse the resulting art with a spiritual content (Chadwick  p.252)."It was a new visual language that demands for a new relationship between art and life merging fine arts and crafts. Many art works were made from woman who patronized the fine arts and houses with set relationship between class and modernity. All of these had far reaching implications. Some omega designs for curtains bedspreads, and blankets were displayed in venues. One work listed in the Allied Artist exhibition was a home painting called The Tub by Vanessa Bell in 1917.

The Tub by Vanessa Bell 1917
 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bell-the-tub-t02010
This painting had abstract printed linens based on oil paintings. The decorative work combined color harmonies lyrical structure, and figurative work all together as absolute aesthetic values. 
 At this time, woman were creative and generated innovation and their husbands got credit for. For instance a female artist named Sonia Delanay and husband Robert Delaunay developed a theory of color named simultanism. Sonia applied their ideas about color and design to make "simutaneous" fabric, clothing, furniture envirnomentsd, and cars. 

Sonia Delaunay "Prismes Isotiques

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        This painting had bold and colorful lines. It was featured in the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts.She was also responsible for making her home a living example of simultanism with her walls floors, and rest of her furniture which appeared "boldly painted. She always innovated to think new ideas to apply to the world around her surroundings."(Gureilla Girls p.61)  

  http://alka.hypotheses.org/lignes-de-recherche-2/seminaires-du-groupe/histoire-de-lart-cours-de-a-larue-documents/sonia-delaunay
A 'simultaneous' dress by Sonia Delaunay next to a Citroen B12, the first car she designed (1925)
 http://www.hintmag.com/post/sonia-delaunay-tate-modern--april-29-2015-1916
This is an example of the painting demonstared by Sonia Delaunay.
Claude Cahun was one of the first 20th Century females to dress up and photgraph herself. Her sexual identity was different and books on surrealism listed her as a man (Guerilla Girl p. 62). She took a range of gender bending stereotypes that was very poetic. It was a relief and she was a passive object ready to be consumed heterosexual male gaze  but she was both the object and subject of her own sexual fantasies. (Guerilla Girl p.63). She was a lesbian condemned and killed. Hannah Hoch was another example.
Claude Cahun self portrait 1929