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The title of the exhibition implies that women artists are more numerous than previously - do we know this as a fact, or were they anonymous before?
I saw an exhibition by the Singh Twins recently; very original and well worth the visit.
Anyone see the repeat of the Tamara De Lempica documentary of BBC4 recently? I can't make up my mind about her paintings - superbly done, but an uneasy sense of everything being subjugated to style. Great for graphics, posters, etc but what lies beneath?
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I wish, to go back to the quote from the gallery at the top, that exhibitions would not "pose questions", still less seek answers on a postcard from visitors ... just put the ruddy paintings up, and we can ask our own questions, if we want to. Curators want to appear relevant and engage people - unless they have to, to get their paws on any government subsidy lurking about, I can't imagine why.
Does the gender of an artist matter, should artists be labelled, is needlework and whatever else (cake-making, maybe?) "art" or something else...? And on and on - oh just shut up. Everything these days has to be analysed to death, one day from one perspective (izzit Art?) another day from another (does it engage da Yoof?).
So far as those issues are concerned, women were strongly discouraged from any kind of artistic activity in centuries past, either because they weren't deemed fit to engage in the deeper issues underlying political and especially religious commentary, or later on because it really wasn't ladylike - one of the more useful things Queen Victoria did was to clobber the latter idea - but in more recent times all of that rubbish has been swept aside, women have been ever more prominent in painting, sculpture, writing etc, and yet now, when we actually CAN dismiss all this prejudice, academics and critics fill column inches (and their bank accounts) by wittering on about the bloody obvious....
I'm in a mood today; just go and see the exhibition, find the curator, and shovel the programme notes and questionnaires right up his or her ********* >:-(
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Hi Robert do you feel better after that?? what a good rant.
Who wrote Frankenstein I can't remember the name...seniors moment...the pseudonym was male the author was female.
I think little ladies of days gone by did participate in art but more as a gentile pass time until the Impressionists I think.
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Thanks to our modernism women in the world of Art are now equal to men but you must admit not in all places of work but this is another subject.
I am old enough to have had a father (born in 1906) who was an artist who told me that I would not go to Art college. "Women look after their husband and children."
It was a time when girls did what they were told otherwise there was problem !
I remember looking with a heavy heart young students carrying their folders and entering "Les Beaux Arts".
I was shown how to draw and paint, helped around his workshop but no further studies in Art.
At the end of the day it had to come out of my skin !
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