Ruth Leon recommends… Great Women Artists – Met Museum
Ruth Leon recommendsGreat Women Artists – Met Museum
This is an illustrated article from the Met Museum by the art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz inspired by Linda Nochin’s pioneering feminist essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
Kathryn Calley Galitz is a scholar of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French art. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Galitz has organized international exhibitions on artists including Chassériau, Girodet, and Turner. This article examines the work of three painters who radically re-envisioned the role of women artists around the time of the French Revolution.
Curiously, it was in painting that, from Renaissance onwards, women were accepted as normal participants. Only, they somehow were neglected in art history which was drawn-up much later, in the course of the 19th century.
Curiously, because in the other arts they were still quite rare. But not absent.