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In 1971, Linda Nochlin issued her article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? This idea of aesthetic genius, says Nochlin, is fiction. Art is rarely produced entirely by the artist for the idea of personal expression. Few identifiers in contemporary art have been as fraught as the term feminist art. What does it mean, who defines it, and how does it relate to past accomplishments of the feminist movement?

The artist’s message to reflect on women's lives, bring attention to women's roles as artists, and rectify the conditions under which contemporary artistic creation was fashioned and received. Clearly brings light to Female equality. Feminist artist Judy Chicago the Dinner Party comprises

The main focus of the painting intended by Titian is a nude woman, Venus, looking straightforwardly at the audience. The young woman’s nipples are erect; with her left hand covers her pubic area, the sexuality of this painting is unquestionable. She is completely naked except for the ring on her little finger and the bracelet around her wrist. It is clear that the intention of this painting is to evoke sensual feelings in its audience.

Reclining nude female is a common subject matter in art history since the Venetian Renaissance, Titian’s Venus of Urbino painted in 1538 is one of the earliest reclining nude female in painting history. It described a beautiful young female laying on her bed with her sleeping dog, on the back ground is her maids looking for cloth or her in the cassone. Manet’s Olympia that painted in 1865 is a painting with a similar composition, A nude young female who was suggested a prostitute, behind her is her black female maid holding a big bouquet of flower which is possibly from her customer. On the same part of the composition, there is an animal as well, but this time it is a cat. Titian and Manet’s reclining nude female have a same composition and subject matter, however They are very different in art history, both stylistically and culturally.

In Chapter 3 of his book, “Ways of Seeing”, John Berger argues that in western nude art and present day media, that women are largely shown and treated as objects upon whom power is asserted by men either as figures in the canvas or as spectators. Berger’s purpose is to make readers aware of how the perception of women in the art so that they will recognize the evolution of western cultured art.

Her main motif of the work is intersubjectivity which she has drawn on four baby vests. The subsequent sections document the development of the child up to age five and analyse the reciprocity of the process of socialization of mother and child. The vests, dirty diapers, traces of markings and writings, hand imprints, and insect specimens stand for mother’s memorabilia and how she makes sense of separation from the child. In these installation based pieces, she continued to explore how traditional gender roles and expectations affect emotional and psychological growth. Kelly has successfully discussed the domestic labour at that time, the process of socialization and the division of labour in the home through the complexity of mother child relationship.

Throughout history many artistic works have been deemed "great" and many individuals have been labeled "masters" of the discipline. The question of who creates art and how is it to be classified as great or greater than another has commonly been addressed by scholars and historians. The last quarter of the 20th century has reexamined these questions based on the assertions that no women artists have ever created or been appreciated to the level of "greatness" that perpetually befalls their male counterparts. The position that society has institutionalized on women as unable to be anything but subordinate and unexpressive is a major contributor to this claim. Giving a brief history of gender discrimination in the art

Artist and people viewing the art work have always had a fascination with the female nude. Even when I was a child my attention was captured by the nude art not because I was a kid and I saw a nude lady , but it forced me to wonder more about why the female nude was so amazing as a tool for art and why this is repeated so many times throughout the centuries. One female nude painting in particular was the subject of controversy and exposed the syncretism and or the power of the female nude painting.

Throughout her life, different individuals and camps have claimed artist Meret Oppenheim as being their own particular dream girl. For Man Ray, she was the ideal female body, modelling nude for several of his most well-known photographs. To the Surrealists, she was a muse that provided intelligence and inspiration to its male members. During the 1970s, she was hailed by feminists and art historians as being a great “woman artist” making work that was symptomatic of her female condition. As a result,

The expression of artist tended toward an illusionary new word, one of fantasy. (Jones, 2014, p. 2) Paintings of nude females were rampant during that era. To release sexual energies the artist would have to find a good representation of sex. Since, the books of Greek myths and philosophers was being rediscovered at that time the artist used this as a tool Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, and sexual desires was often painted nude in the renaissance (Moss, 1987, p.174). They painted nude under the disguise of representing knowledge. The Birth of Venus (1484-1486) by Sandra Botticelli, shows Venus rising from a sea foam. The female artist painter Venus with her hands covering her sexual organs and used a seashell as a metaphor for vulva. While, The Sleeping Venus (1510) by Gigione and Venus and Adonis (1586) by Titan show a more revealed picture of the goddess shown in a more submissive image. In The Sleeping Venus, Venus is in reclining nude and is seem more as a sex object and in Venus and Adonis clinging desperately to her love. Their release of energy reveal a more superior complex against women. These socially acceptable revealed the secrets of the unconscious mind in male artist.

The painting was based on Titian’s Venus of Urbino, however, the subject matter and the content surprised the viewer with a harsh reality that could not be ignored. In the course of the modern period of industrialization, new inventions, and expansion that created a thriving atmosphere in Paris, what made this painting quite obscene to the public of the time was the “hidden” escalation in prostitution. Unlike Titian’s Venus, this specific piece of artwork presented a nude female prostitute. Manet positioned her in a pose that was quite hostile and confrontational with her firm but bored gaze making it hard for the viewer to look away. She was being depicted as less traditionally virtuous than Venus as her body language showed a business type of transaction more than anything else. Almost every piece of subject matter in the painting accentuated her sexuality, such as the black cat, the choker, the flower in her hair, and the golden

Before feminism came into the limelight, women artists had been denied to showcase their work in exhibitions and galleries for the only reasoning of them being female. “…running anywhere from "scientifically proven" demonstrations of the inability of human beings with wombs rather than penises to create anything significant, to relatively open minded wonderment that women, despite so many years of near equality and after all, a lot of men have had their disadvantages too have still not achieved anything of exceptional significance in the visual arts.” Nochlin, L. (1988). As Nochlin almost mocks the male persona in art, she is indicating that at until this point in time, we haven't yet seen anything groundbreaking in the art world which has been created by men, which has left the question of why has it taken so long for women to stand up and say we are just, if not more capable to work and create in this mans world. The provoked Feminist artists went on to create their own art galleries and worked to change the policies that were in place in exhibitions to boost women artists' recognition within the art

Initially the photographs of women, were taken by men, for the pleasure of men – the male gaze. In contrast many photographs were taken for the beauty of the female form, as a result of technological advancements and cameras becoming more accessible not just for men but for women also. The subject of how the female form is portrayed in both paintings and photographs has been the subject of many a

There is some disparity between the way critics and philosophers like Judith Butler view Cindy Sherman's work and the way that Cindy Sherman speaks of her photographs. It may be the disparity that exists between many modern artists, who often operate on an intuitive level, and the philosopher critics who comment upon them from a theoretical perspective or a pre-established framework. On one level, Cindy Sherman may only be playing "dress-up" (as she herself admits) in her famous History Portraits (1989-90) (Berne, 2003). On another level, however, her "dressing-up" may be indicative of a deeper problem in modern gender identity theory which is the problem of "becoming" woman (Butler, 1994) or, as Judith Butler sees it, the problem of performativity. In the History Portraits, Sherman may certainly be said to be "performing" and perhaps even attempting to "become" the male and female characters she represents in her work. Indeed, it is upon such a premise that philosopher critics and gender theorists find her work so engaging. This paper will examine Cindy Sherman and her History Portraits in relation to Judith Butler's gender theory, the portrayal of the self, and how gender identity has changed throughout the course of modern history. It will examine representations of womanhood from Romantic Idealism to Post-Modernism and will also

This literature review will explore how and to what extent postmodernism has changed the representation of women in images. Postmodernism was a time period after modernism, being at the centre of culture. What is to be regarded as postmodern, those things that are seen to occur as ‘natural’ are in fact shaped by humans, thus making it cultural. Postmodernism was brought as a result from the 1960’s onwards, being a reaction against anti realism modernism. Feminist artists and theorists have combined postmodernism with their own work in order to bring forth the ideas surrounding that of, how cultural forms or representation within the mass media are based around particular ideologies. When referring to representation, when linking this with the works of the theories brought about by postmodernism, how we see ourselves and how we construct the notions of ourselves are through the structure of available images. Feminist theory points to how the construction of gender is an effect of representation. The representation of women in images during the postmodern era, could merit further investigation in order to inform of how women from all over the world have been represented, whether it be regarding their race, nationality, age or sexuality. Using a variety of texts, the main debates regarding this topic will be explored through critiquing selected theorists in order to develop upon my own research. The following academic writings will be referenced: Weedon (1987), Williamson