POST 4

     Judy Chicago is one of my most influential female artists of modern time. In the dinner party, the table sits on a floor of 2304 porcelain triangular tiles (in 129 units) inscribed with the names of 999 significant women. The work is introduced by 6 hanging banners woven in the traditional French Aubusson tapestry technique. 

the dinner party.

 

The guerilla girls, the advantages of being a female artist, sarcastically highlights the difficulties female artists endure.

 

Mary Cassat" the American" shows the traditional role of women in society, that is taking care of children.

 

Judy Chicago's  Bordecia place setting looks like the luscious curves of a woman. Its radical statemement highlights sexism in art.

 

 

Alice Mumford's , the walled garden shows how young women used to taught by an older woman. Gender defined the type of education one got. But the girls received the raw end of the deal when compared to the boys.

        

 

                Marguerite Thompson Zorach half dome Yosemite valley, shows how talented women artists are. Her painting is just as good if not even better than those from male artists. But because of her gender she didn't get the recognition she deserved and yet less talented men got more credit.

 

 Bibliography

 

Chadwick, Whitney, Women, Art and Society.

The Guerilla girls, The Guerilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

.https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/5167/The_Dinner_Party