Marely Fontanez 
Art and Women 
Extra Credit Post 

Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago is an enormous installation artwork that is on display in the Brooklyn Museum. The Dinner Party consists of a large triangular table and along the table there are 39 individual place settings each commemorating a historical woman or fictional woman figure. The women are represented in historical order along the table beginning with the Primordial Goddess and ending with Georgia O'Keeffe. "The settings consist of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates with raised central motifs that are based on vulvar and butterfly forms." 

The Dinner Party is a remarkable artwork that gives women the recognition they deserve which was denied to them because of their gender and the existence patriarchy. Throughout this course and especially in the very beginning we learned about very talented women artists who are not well acknowledged in history books. One of the main goals of the Guerrilla Girls in their book, The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art,  was to rewrite history and in this revision give credit to women artists. Judy Chicago does just that and more through The Dinner Party. She commemorates these women for their achievements and the value they have added to the world in a beautiful and impactful manner. I appreciate that the title of the artwork makes a reference to it being a "party" because it is indeed a party; a celebration of these women and women everywhere. 

Works Cited 
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/dinner_party/?gclid=CjwKEAjw85DIBRCy2aT0hPmS1jkSJAC1m9Uv9KPOALIYhqdV80o_YM71pPv0wpJqKcqCATNHnuDSxhoCJGLw_wcB