Feminism is not anger towards men nor the desire for domination and control. It is the quest for equality, justice and parity. I have dedicated most of my blog towards highlighting women artists from all over the world in my quest to bring these fabulous artists to everyone’s attention. This one, in particular, is most interesting because of the part of the world where she came from. Let us all get to know this incredibly talented, brave and creative woman artist from Afghanistan. The video will start you off on the quest to learn more…
Jenny Saville es una de esas artistas femeninas que hay que conocer y vamos, conocerla muy bien. Su cuadro «Propped,» de 1992, se convirtió en el cuadro mas caro de una mujer pintora en 2018 cuando se vendió en subasta (Sotheby’s) for £9,5 millones… Nació en 1970 en Cambridge, Inglaterra, vive en Oxford y se le conoce como la pintora de grandes volúmenes de carne humana que demuestra en sus desnudos femeninos, muchas veces siendo ella misma la modelo.
(«Propped» by Jenny Saville/1992/Photo Sotheby’s)
Jenny Saville is one of those women artists that we should get to know and get to know well. Her painting «Propped» (1992) became the most expensive painting by a woman artist after selling at auction (Sotheby’s) for £9,5 million in 2018.… She was born in 1970 in Cambridge, England and lives in Oxford. She is known as a painter of volumes and tomes of human flesh that she paints on her canvases, sometimes being herself the model.
Esta artista tiene muy buenas obras, pero, lamentablemente porque es mujer, no se le ha dado el reconocimiento debido. Eso pasa mucho en la historia del arte y tiene que cambiar… Aquí os la dejo para que la conozcáis mejor…
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This artist has wonderful paintings but, lamentably, because she is a woman, she has not been given the exposure and recognition that she should have. This happens a lot in Art History and it has to change… So here she is so that you can get to know her better…
Berenice Abbott was an American photographer born in Ohio in 1898…
She started her studies at Ohio State University, then in 1918 she relocated to Manhattan and started studying painting and sculpture. In 1921 she went to Paris to continue with her studies and studied sculpture with Emile Bourdelle. Bourdelle, French sculptor, was a student of Rodin, and a teacher to Giacometti and Matisse. He was a vanguard artist and a major proponent of Art Deco and an important part of the Belle Époque movement…
In France she met Man Ray and became his assistant. She then began to develop her art and started taking portraits of other artists…
Man Ray was an American photographer born in Philadelphia in 1890 but spent most of his life in Paris. He is renowned as a fashion photographer and for the many portraits he took of famous people…
But we are focusing on Berenice Abbott and you can see many of her incredibly delicious photographs that I have placed in this video. Don’t miss it!
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Fusion entre el arte tribal maya y la abstracción geométrica Una autentica locura, pero resulta que los cuadros están muy interesantes. A esta artista guatemalteca, nacida en Antigua Guatemala el 17 de abril 1931, (fallecida 01/07/1998), no la conocen muchos pero nosotros tenemos que conocerla porque forma parte de esa gran masa amorfa de mujeres artistas que han sido echadas a un lado por la historia del arte, claro, gobernada por hombres.
Aquí os dejo algunas de sus obras y os urjo a que busquéis mas…
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Fusion between Mayan tribal art and geometric abstraction! Crazy! But the result is quite interesting… This woman artist, born in Guatemala in 1931 (died in 1998), is not very well known but we must get to know her as she is one of those tossed aside by the male dominated Art History. Here are a few of her paintings and works.
(Retrato de Antonietta Gonsalvus/Lavinia Fontana 1583/Portrait of Antinietta Gonsalvuv/Lavinia Fontana 1583/Dominio Publico/Public Domain image)
Bueno, la modelo de la pintura es Tognina Gonsalvus que nació en la Isla de Francia en 1572 y fue una de las hijas de Petrus Gonsalvus, o sea el Salvaje Gentilhombre de Tenerife. La niña, como su padre, padecía de hipertricosis.
Pero vamos al grano. El cuadro, pintado por Lavinia Fontana (Bologna 1552) en 1583, el pasado 4 de junio fue subastado en Francia por la cantidad récord de 1,55 millones de euros. El lote había estado valorado en no mas de 120,000 euros. No solo es un récord para los cuadros de Fontana sino que demuestra que las artistas de la antigüedad están ganando cada vez mas y mas terreno. Esto ayuda también a las mas modernas y las de ahora, si siguen creando con la misma inspiración, energía y talento.
Debemos conocer que Lavinia Fontana fue una de esas pocas que si obtuvo reconocimiento como un pintora en su época. Fue la primera mujer (que se conoce) de la historia del arte que tuvo su propio atelier, además tuvo encargos desde España y fue nombrada pintora pintora oficial del papa Clemente VIII.
La subasta fue hecha en el castillo de Artigny, cercano a Tours, por la casa francesa Rouillac.
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Well the model, Tognina Gonsalvus, born on the Isle de France in 1572, and the daughter of Petrus Gonsalvus, the Gentil Giant of Tenerife, was born with hypertrichosis, like her father…
But let us get to the point here. The painting, by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna 1552) was completed in 1583 and on June 4, 2023, it sold at auction for 1,55 million euros. The lot had been appraised at no more than 120,000 euros. This is not only a record for the works of Fontana but a major accomplishment for women artists of the remote past whose works are gaining more and more value. This will help all women artists, and if the contemporary ones create with such energy and talent, it will certainly help them gain parity with male artists.
Let me explain that Lavinia Fontana was one of those rare examples in the existence of women in Art History. She received recognition in her lifetime as an artist. She was the first woman artist (that we know of) who had her own studio. She received various commissions from Spain and was appointed the official painter to Pope Clement VIII.
The auction was held at the Castle of Artigny, nearby Tours by the French Auction House of Rouillac.
(Autorretrato (1579) de Lavinia Fontana en la Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze/Dominio Publico/Self-Portrait (1579) by Lavinia Fontana at the Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze/Public Domain)
«Sea Dance» is original art and now available as a fine art print only through Fine Art America. Here you see the wood print version but there are more to choose from. There are also more images in my gallery at Fine Art America.
(Image property of Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)
«Roses By The Sea» that you see here is in its art print form (many other forms available) and it is now at Pixels (a Fine Art America company) through my gallery. This is the only company that I have trusted with my images to create fine art prints of high quality. Pixels handles the entire transaction and ships quickly. Check out my gallery often as I change the images frequently to keep things exclusive and fresh.
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