Women & Art Final Flashcards
Praxiteles
Cnidian Venus or Knidian Aphrodite
4th century BC
marble
Ghirlandaio
Giovanna Tornabuoni
1488
tempera on panel
Titian
Venus of Urbino
1538
oil on canvas
Artemisia Gentileschi
Susanna and the Elders
1610
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Oil on Canvas
Artemisia depicts the biblical story of Susanna, a virtuous young wife sexually harassed by the elders of her community. Rather than showing Susanna as coyly or flirtatious (as many male artists had painted the scene), Artemisia takes the female perspective and portrays Susanna as vulnerable, frightened, and repulsed by their demands, while the men loom large, leering, menacing, and conspiratorial in her direction.
Clara Peeters
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Goblets, and Shells
1612
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Oil
Doesn’t need a model for this type of work
Judith Leyster
The Proposition
1631
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Oil?
Rubens
Helene Fourment in a Fur Coat
1635-40
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John Berger article. Different than other nudes.
Rubens wife
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Marie Antoinette and her children
1787
oil on canvas
Official portrait painter of Marie Antoinette
Jacques-Louis David
Oath of the Horatii
oil on canvas
1784
Ingres
La Grande Odalisque
1814
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Oil on Canvas
Commissioned by a woman possibly for her husband
Comissioned by Napoleon’s sister, Queen Caroline Murat of Naples
Known for body distortion and elongation
Ingres
Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples
1814
oil on canvas
Portrait of Napoleons sister. Comissioned La Grande Odalisque
Stuff in Background Important
Lilly Martin Spencer
The War Spirit at Home
1866
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Actually showed women in natural habitat, kids playing around. After important battle
Lilly Martin Spencer
Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the Lasses
1856
Rosa Bonheur
The Horse Fair
1853
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Possibly painted herself in disguise as a man
Édouard Manet
Olympia
1863
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Naked Vs. Nude
Prostitute
Compare with Venus of Urbino
Naked because reveals something about subject
Gaze
Berthe Morisot
The Cradle
1872
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Édouard Manet
Portrait of Berthe Morisot with a Fan
1872
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Face covered, clearly an object, can only see leg
Edouard Manet
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
1882
oil on canvas
Mary Cassatt
At the Opera
1879
Edgar Degas
The Tub
1876–1877
Monotype
Gauguin
Manao Tupapau
1892
Image of woman from Tahiti, Tahiti was colonized. Women not freely naked. Laying on back
Renoir
The Large Bathers
1887
Meret Oppenheim
Object
1936
mixed media
Objects made to be used made inusable
Louise Bourgeois
Cumulus I
1969
marble
Judy Chicago
The Dinner Party
1979
mixed media
Each plate sculpted to look like a vagina.
Both positive and negative, Women just being known for vagina?
Only white women represented
Unintentional Hierarchy
Jenny Saville
Plan
1993
oil on canvas
Plan - Plastic surgery plan written on body.
Monstrous in size
Kara Walker
Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart
1994
Cut paper and adhesive on wall
Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #15
1978
photograph
Marina Abramovic
The Artist is Present
2010
performance
