apah study guide women artists
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Women Artists and Patrons
APAH Study Guide #2
Hatshepsut
• Commissioned Mortuary Temple• First recorded great female ruler
Theodora
• Wife and and empress of Justinian• Portrayed leading a procession and equal to
her husband (San Vitale, Ravenna)
Hildegarde of Bingen (artist)
• Illustrator of Illuminated manuscripts, composer of music, visionary, theologian, Benedictine abbess
Vision of Hildegarde of Bingen, 1150-1179
Isabella D’Este (patron)• MOST important female patron of the Renaissance – supported
painters like Titian, Raphael, DaVinci
Portrait by Titian 1534-1536
Sofonisba Anguissola (artist)
• Considered to be first Italian woman “art celebrity”
• Studied under Michelangelo
• Court painter to Phillip II of Spain
• Mannerist painter
Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess (1555)
Caterina Van Hemessen (artist)
• Flemish artist• Painted FIRST known N. European self-portrait
by a woman
Artemisia Gentileschi (artist)* see Caravaggio
• Baroque painter and follower of Caravaggio
• Best known for her versions of Judith Slaying Holofernes.
Judith and her Maidservant 1613-1614
Marie de’Medici (patron)
• Commissioned Rubens to paint series of 21 HUGE paintings glorifying her!
• Wife of Henry IV, first of the Bourbon Kings
RUBENS, Arrival of Marie de Medici 1622-1625
Judith Leyster (artist)
• Dutch Baroque painter – successful portrait painter
• Influenced by Frans Hals (p. 301 in Gardner’s)
Self-portrait 1630
Rachel Ruysch (artist)
• Dutch Baroque artist• Known for her highly
detailed floral paintings
ca. 1700s
Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun (artist)
• Famous for her portraits of Marie Antoinette
• One of few women admitted to Royal Academy
Marie Antoinette, 1783
Adelaide Labille-Guiard (artist)
• Known for her portraits of French aristocrats
• One of the few women admitted to the Royal Academy
• Contemporary of LeBrun
Self-portrait with two pupils, 1785
Angelica Kauffmann
• Neoclassical painter
• Founding member of British Royal Academy of Arts
Self-portrait Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting 1791
Edmonia Lewis (artist)
• Neoclassical sculptor• African-American
Forever Free, 1867
Julia Margaret Cameron (artist)
• Prominent portrait photographer in England
• Photos are usually slightly blurred for dramatic effect.
Call, I follow, I follow, let me die!, carbon print from copy negative, negative 1867,
Rosa Bonheur (artist)
• Most celebrated female artist of the 19th century!• Famous for her realistic paintings of animals
The Horse Fair 1852
Gertrude Kasebier (artist)
• American photographer• Famous for photos with
symbolic themes
* For similar themes of mother and child, look at Mary Cassatt
Blessed Art Thou Among Women, 1899
Berthe Morisot
• Impressionist painter
• Married to Manet’s brother and sometimes posed for Manet.
Mary Cassatt (artist)• American Impressionist
painter• Influenced by Degas and
Japanese woodblock prints • Known for her portraits of
mothers with children
Gertrude Stein (patron)
• Patron of Picasso, Matisse, and other avant-garde artists living in Paris during the early 1900’s and 1920’s
Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1905-1906
Hannah Hoch
• Dada artist• Known for her
photomontages (collages)
Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-1920
Kathe Kollwitz
• German Expressionist
• Best known for depictions of grief/loss
• Printmaker (woodcut, etching, lithography)
Woman with dead child, 1903
Meret Oppenheim
• Surrealist• While having tea
with Picasso, Oppenheim ordered her tea with a “little more fur” since it had grown cold!
Object, 1936
Frida Kahlo
• Mexican portraitist (NOT surrealist)
• Known for her symbolic self-portraits
• Married to Diego Riviera (a muralist) see page 402
Self-portrait, 1940
Barbara Hepworth *see Henry Moore
• English Minimalist• Sculpture
attempts to represent the essence of things
Oval Sculpture #2, 1968
Dorothea Lange
• Photographer known for her documentation of the Great Depression
Mississippi Delta Children, 1939
Helen Frankenthaler
• Post-painterly Abstractionist OR Color Field painter
• Known for her large works where paint is poured onto unprimed canvas
Magic Carpet, 1964
Maya Lin
• Minimalist sculptor• Best known for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Wall)
What is missing, 2009
Louise Nevelson
• American Sculptor
• Known for her assemblages – artworks created from existing objects
Sky Cathedral, 1958
Make sure to read pp. 425-429 (Feminist Art)
GUERILLA GIRLS, Do Women have to be naked?, 1989-2005