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Female Artists in Feminist Theory

by: Zeth Vejar Sofonisba Anguissola During the Renaissance women were forbidden to be apprentices to master artists. But many female artists bypassed that rule by having fathers who were also artists and trained with them instead. Sofonisba though was sent by her father to study with other artists. During the Feminist movement of the 1970’sContinue reading “Female Artists in Feminist Theory “

Breaking Down Art History: Woman as a Spectacle in Art

Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist in the mid 1800’s. Her subject matter mainly included women in leisure activities, or sometimes in the privacy of their homes living a domestic lifestyle. In one painting of hers, The Woman in Black at the Opera, Cassatt’s subject is a woman dressed in black using her Opera glassesContinue reading “Breaking Down Art History: Woman as a Spectacle in Art”