Unit 3 - Feminist Art Criticism

The Feminist art criticism was emerged in 1970s from the winder feminist movement as the critical examination of both visual representations of women in art and art produced by women. A ground breaking essay titled "Why have there been no great women artists?" by Linda Nochlin. She was one of the great artist in art world.

In my opinion, back in the old day, things that make the women challenge their visual representation was people didn't give enough attention to women art work, even there was many great female artist around the world in the time. But as the old day, women was still not count as equal to the men yet so they would giving less attention with their art work.

Women portrayed was mostly naked. As i looks in my research, women back in the day who were used as portrayed as likely not wearing any clothes and stay naked and to me, i finds this things kind of sexual harassment because of the way the treats the women in the art world was completely unfair and no right in there.

For my personal thought, i couldn't name any female artists that have equal status to make artists in the art world. I know there many female artists around the world but i barely know or do any research about them to actually finds out whos.

Judy Chicago is one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s. Her reason of why she wanting to do Feminist art was because she wanting people to be inspired by the women's movement and rebelling against the male-dominated art scene of the 1960s, which lionized the Minimalist work of artists like Donald Judd, Chicago embraced explicitly female content.

Along with fellow artist Miriam Schapiro, Chicago co-founded several pioneering ventures that sought to change the structure of women's artistic training, as well as broaden their access to, and visibility in, contemporary art. The women-only Feminist Art program, established at California Institute of Arts, centered on women's identity, experiences, and collaborative, discussion-based practices such as consciousness-raising. Womanhouse, co-founded by Chicago and Schapiro as an outgrowth of the Feminist Art program, was an installation and performance space dedicated to female creative expression. - Taken from http://www.theartstory.org/artist-chicago-judy Date: 3/7/2016

Her most important art was "The Dinner Party (1979)" It took her five years and cost around $250,000 to complete. Detail about the art: It's measures 48-feet by 43 feet by 36 feet, consisting of 39 place settings. Each place setting commemorates a historical or mythical female figure such as artists goddesses and others.

The next group that i would like to talk about is "The Guerrilla Girls"

In 1985, a bunch of female artists, incensed by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 17 women, founded the Guerrilla Girls. Dubbing ourselves “The Conscience of the Artworld,” we started making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information, provoke discussion and to show that feminists can be funny. We assumed the names of dead women artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when we appeared in public, concealing our true identities and focusing on the issues rather than on our personalities. - Taken from http://www.guerrillagirls.com/admin/moreherstory Date: 3/7/2016

This is the Guerrilla Girls's poster. this is to protect of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Gender imbalance brought this feminist critique out of the academy and into the public sphere. Nowadays the Guerrilla Girls still around the art world as well.

In my opinion about this group, i finds them asking too much for female right. They didn't really need to make such a big deal about it and should show people around the world what female can do.

With the public view, they would think it's great because there actually some people standing up for  female's right and equal and letting female artists get into art with their own talent out and not the female nudes.