women in art
Painted female subjects
Women in art encompasses both the depiction of women as subjects and the work of women as creators.
The phrase often signals attention to how female figures have been represented—as muses, madonnas, nudes, or objects of the male gaze—and to the historical exclusion of women artists from galleries, canons, and art education.
The museum opened a wing dedicated to women in art.
Her thesis examined women in art from the Renaissance to the present.
- odalisqueHarem slave or attendant
- reclining nudeSupine unclothed figure art
- nudeUnclothed state
- Mona LisaRenaissance portrait, famously inscrutable
- male gazeSexualized viewing of women
Frida Kahlo · Georgia O'Keeffe · model · Artemisia · old masters · Olympia · gaze · femme fatale · Gertrude Stein · patroness · muse · female artists · bust · studio · portrait · Venus · statue · goddess
- Gender Artfemale gaze, male gaze, gender expression, gender identity, objectification
- women in architecture