Research, Mediation and Curation with a gender perspective
Leonor Fini was one of the many women artists attracted by the Surrealist movement during the 1930’s. What attracted them was the anti-academic stance of the movement and by an art that put emphasis in personal reality. But once they realized that Surrealism defined their role as one of confirming and completing the creative cycle… Continue reading The Guardian of the Black Egg by Leonor Fini
Last weekend I went to watch Mary Shelley, the film that tells her story with Percy Bysshe Shelley and how this relationship inspired her to write Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. The original title was A storm in the stars, but it was changed in January 2017. The film, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, is based… Continue reading ArtReview: Mary Shelley (the film)
Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob was a French photographer, sculptor and writer born in Nantes in a prominent intellectual Jewish family, who considered herself as genderqueer, what explains the adoption of the gender-ambiguous pseudonym of Claude Cahun by 1919. Cahun’s work was political and very personal. Often her work undermined traditional concepts of static gender roles,… Continue reading Who was Claude Cahun?
Few days ago, the National Gallery of London informed its new acquisition, a self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi. It’s a self-portrait of the artist as Saint Catherine of Alexandria from about 1615-17. An oil painting that will undergo conservation treatment before going on display in the first months of 2019. This £3.6 million acquisition has been… Continue reading ArtNews: The National Gallery acquires a new Gentileschi
The birth date of Edmonia Lewis has been listed as July 4, 1844. She was born in Greenbush, which is now the city of Rensselaer. She was the first woman of the African-American heritage to achieve international recognition as a sculptor in the fine arts world. Edmonia Lewis lost her parents when she was only… Continue reading On this day… was born Edmonia Lewis
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