It’s been getting harder and harder to reach an audience on social media these days, so I‘m really grateful to everyone who supports small artists like myself. 💜
How Much Women's Art Was Suppressed Because Men Were Jealous?
"Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent. There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators erased from public memory. Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning met similar resistance; Andre Breton and Dalí both also being misogynistic megalomaniacs who vanguarded surrealism from women; Henry Miller writing to Anaïs Nin that her stories were garbage and should be disregarded, only for her to discover whole sections copied word for word in his novels years later, all while she financed his existence.
Francoise Gilot finally gets an exhibition after this hack successfully ruined her chances of success as an artist while she lived, and her name is still omitted.
Rebecca Solnit suggests that the fact that the question "what is your mother's maiden name?" is often used for security measures is a meaningful indicator of the extent of women's erasure. What's in a name? A lot. If one's claim of one's own name meant nothing then colonisers wouldn't need to strip them from the colonised, and men wouldn't need to erase them in marriage, from history books and from reportage."
Joy Voltenburg Binion
Custom Quilts of Joy
Sullivan, Illinois
Men have always looked own on women's art and tried to diminish it's importance by calling it "arts and crafts." The skill, patience and time women put into creating beauty has always been discounted by male controlled
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at the London Tate Modern: "Huge, moving and full of surprises" by Laura Cumming
"Inviting you to draw on the walls, hammer in nails and climb into cloth bags like the ones she shared with John Lennon, this painstaking retrospective of the artist’s hopeful work over seven decades is as inclusive as it is instructive."
Japanese artist Nana Akua photographed her grandmother's embroidery folk art called Temari.
A colourful thread-wrapped & embroidered temari ball is given as a token of love and good luck to family and friends.
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) : peintre hollandaise effacée de l'histoire : mari artiste, 10 enfants, 60 ans de peinture et 250 oeuvres, représentant fleurs, fruits et petits animaux
^@womensart1: Suffragette-defaced Edward VII penny with subversive political graffiti (VOTES FOR WOMEN) for the UK women's suffrage cause - 20thC, via @britishmuseum#WomensArt
I love 'Moose' by Kirsty Elson; she creates art by upcycling driftwood & other found materials (circulated by #WomensArt at the other place)... but it also reveals the enduring influence of #Picasso's bicycle bull.
In today's FT Enuma Okoro's column (where she muses on how works of art have either prompted a particular thought, or something has reminded her of a piece of #art), included this great painting ‘After Breakfast’ (1890) by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi.
There's something about this moment that is so familiar (perhaps to us all)...
"Mon chat et moi (autoportrait avec son chat), 1932 is an pioneering work by Italian photographer Wanda Wulz, who created the image by printing two negatives-one of her face, the other of the family cat, on a single sheet of photographic paper" #WOMENSART