After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed kindness & community, showing goodness even in the darkest times.
#TinaTurner
was not only a huge talent but also a survivor of male violence who bravely spoke out about the abuse she suffered, helping other women to raise their own voices.
Women are half the human population, we can't cram all their rights, expressions, causes, hopes into 1 day & we can't explore their histories in 1 month. Every day should be available.....
#InternationalWomensDay
Art by Louise Bourgeois
Thoughts are with all those in difficult circumstances, especially over this time of year, in economic crisis, in grief, in isolation or ill health.I'm going to contine to share WA tweets over the coming days to keep this community going for all.
'Winter Teasels" by Jackie Morris
Where are the women artists??
Are Camille Claudel, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Münter, Marianne Werefkin or Sonia Delaunay, as just a few examples, included too?
After Impressionism
A ground-breaking new exhibition of over 100 paintings and sculptures by artists such as Cézanne, Van Gogh, Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, Klimt, Kandinsky and Mondrian will open at the Gallery next year:
Women artists have been overlooked throughout history. We've created an A-Z resource highlighting 1,000 women artists to give you a place to *start* exploring some of their work
Here's 🅰️:
🧑🎨 Anna Alma-Tadema
📸
@Russell_Cotes
#WomensHistoryMonth
I think this 1900 painting by Vanessa Bell says much about women artists and Western art history....!!
And so does the new
@womensart1
book on women who paint - from Gentileschi to O'Keeffe and much more
- Unlocking Women's Art 🎨
And it's coming soon!
Handed in the text to the publisher for the new
@womensart1
book on women painters 🎨......hopefully out later this year! Thanks all for your involvement and support!
A typical bookshop art department I visited yesterday....apart from Kahlo, ALL male names represented and this normalises BIAS! Women made art too...Please complain to your local bookshop (as well as gallery) if women aren't present!
During August, the
@womensart1
account will show the occasional work by those posting their artworks with the
#drawingaugust
hashtag....so get busy making art!
This is by me.....have a great weekend!
Art historians have always argued about the expression on this barmaid’s face in Manet’s Bar at the Folies Bergère, but I’m more interested in what you think ~ is she bored / sulky/ lost in thought / resigned / alienated / tired / sad? Does your view change if you cover her eyes?
Looks like a fantastic exhibition
@HepworthGallery
and the artist featured, Shiela Hicks - pioneer in the world of textile, fibre arts and installation is featured in the
@womensart1
book Unravelling Women's Art.
Trying my best to blend into this mountainous work by Sheila Hicks in her major retrospective at Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire. Creating sculpture out of textiles this major show contains the full diversity of her work and how she's worked with differe…
Please, please, please snip the straps of your disposable masks when you get rid of them - to prevent birds getting entangled. Or better still, use a mask which can be reused - Thank you 🦢😷
UNRAVELLING WOMEN'S ART the womensart1 book, dont miss out! Available from various outlets incuding Amazon, Book Depository or your local bookshops...
GET YOUR COPY WHILE STOCKS LAST!! … Thank you! ❤
Today can be hard day for many people, after a very hard year. Sending love to everyone, especially those dealing with separation, isolation, loss and more. x
My
#womensart
book....
Unravelling Women's Art:
Creators, Rebels & Innovators in Textile Arts
available to pre-order, also available to pre-order through other retailers.
The undermining of female artists has been normalisd and is certainly not entirely a thing of the past. Labelling women in the arts with refrences to the males in their life is still common in galleries, encouraging the idea of secondary or dependant status.
Lee Krasner, a US abstract expressionist painter, was labelled as “wife of Jackson Pollock” at a major British gallery quite recently, while in the same room Jackson Pollock didn't seem to require presention as anyone’s husband.....
@TERFsOutOfArt
@womensart1
Hi, the womensart account has featured LBTQ artists over the years, what you're doing is sadly inaccurate and defamation. This sort of online harrassment under the guise of 'caring' has to stop.
How ironic that men like Trump can use terms like 'witch hunts' to defend themselves. Witch hunts- used to oppress, violate and eradicate women, engaged in by dangerous, mysogynistic and cowardly patriarchs....
"Gobshite' by Alison J Lee of the Profanity Embroidery Group.
Seeing the women art exhibition 'Maestras' at the Thyssen museum Madrid. Please go if you can, like my book it reflects a journey through women's creative history on canvas. Fantastic in the flesh....!
Thanks for all the nice comments, it's good to know people appreciate what I do. To the dissenting voices,
@womensart1
is a private, non-organisational account-so it is not accountable to anyone. Like your own social media platforms, what I feature is my choice - alone »
BBC6 Music's 'Art is Everwhere' today, lovely
@maryannehobbs
asked me to share a fave portrait. I choose this beautiful work by
@JenniDutton
'Dementia Darnings' series, as it represents the cyclical nature of love/care & the challenging role of many women as carers
#6MusicArt
'I am my own muse, the subject I know best' is a quote by Oroma Elewa and has been wrongly attributed online and here to Frida Kahlo. Apologies to the artist.
If you're still wondering why WOMENSART is necessary please read this.
'A study found that 85% of artists in U.S. museum collections are white, and 87% are male'
Hi all, if you're using
@womensart1
as a source for posting on similar sites which highlight women artists, whether on FB or any social network, please credit it - my research takes many hours. Much appreciated xx
(Logo below by fab artist Jenni Dutton)
So in case nobody got it...this weekend on
@womensart1
was all about making a link between old/young - young/old. Brought about by the idea that everyone is connected and all are valuable, an idea that we really need to promote these days.
Adding links has been given serious thought by
#WOMENSART
but can't justify the promotion of some artists over others which would only serve to highlight global/economic privilege & inequality through access/lack of access to resources-so all artists are shown on an equal basis.
Thank you for continuing to make the womensart1 book a best seller in Amazon catagories in the UK and US.
Plse support your independent book sellers too 🙏 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Really not good enough
@NationalGallery
"THE NATIONAL GALLERY has 20 works by female artists in its collection and four works by female artists on loan.......There are over 2,300 works in the National Gallery Collection"
Interesting that the model was Elizabeth Siddal, an artist in her own right but little recognised as that until recent times, who lay in a bath of water over winter for this painting, getting very ill as a result.....Explained more in my new book!
John Everett Millais' Ophelia is one of the most popular paintings on display at Tate Britain. 🥀🖼️ Here we explore Millais's subject, materials and techniques, including his inspiration and preparatory sketches:
Hello
@TwitterSupport
can you please stop (partly) censoring
@womensart1
as it does not show imagery that is pornographic, exploitative or violent. This is an ART account of autonomous work by women and it is
#WomensHistoryMonth
#WOMENSART
views all artists as equally valid, from famous painters to lesser known indigenous art projects. Promoting some with links and not others (as not all have their own sites/shops), brings up a number of issues, including opposing this basic premise of equality.
An example of the common practice of referring to female artists in relation to their male artist partners. The same does not generally apply to male artists...
In the North of England we carved turnips not pumpkins (and yes, we called them turnips not swedes). It took hours .... but in the old days prolonged anticipation was part of life's joys.
This year has not been an easy one re my own health and today means another hospital visit, so please understand (one-person run)
@womensart1
tweets are often taking place in difficult outdoor locations or during my working/family occupied day...so plse forgive the odd mistake❤
That I wrote a book that an independent publisher considered good and that so many of you like is amazing. I am absolutely humbled, honoured...thank you!
I'm in Vienna doing art research. Noticing in galleries how the few female artists on show are often referenced in context of their male partners (whose names even appear 1st in the text!)- and how this not the case for male artists with artist spouses or influencers.
🎁🎄📚 💛💚🧡💜💙
Womensart1 books!!
'Unravelling Women's Art' on textile artists & now 'Unlocking Women's Art' on painters from Gentileschi to Kahlo among others!
Both available to order/pre-order from Amazon or your local book shops.
Great gifts! ❤️
...
@womensart1
After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed kindness & community, showing goodness even in the darkest times.
There's no such thing as 'women's art', art created by artists who are female is diverse, but there are genres with which women have been culturally associated and a historic progression of limited choices, opportunities, resources and recognition for women specifically.
Disappointing to see a number of popular art accounts using
@womensart1
as a source without credit.Even posting same images-same day.Sad that an account trying to rectify invisibility of womens creative labour is being utilised by some without acknowledgement of hours of research
Great to see Mia getting lots of coverage re her 10 year undertaking to recreate the Bayeux Tapestry.
She slso appears in the
@womensart1
book 'Unraveilling Women's Art' !
And another fantastic addition to any bookshelf....❤🧡💛💚💙
'F*ck Off, I'm Sewing: Swearing and Sewing That Will Have You in Stitches' (Paperback) from another fantastic follow
@broideryprofane
@womensart1
Just to clarify. The image was contrived in that it was created with a deliberate intention by the photographer and subject, but the reaction of the men is genuine.
WA has on occasion tweeted artists from the L G B T community (e.g. David Hockney) & does not ignore the existance of any artist. It has also tweeted an elderly man who knit sweaters for penguins several times, while the point-the promotion of female artists remains valid.
A few days ago 3 men with chainsaws cut down a huge pine tree, a home to many creatures, opposite my house. Every night since this bird who used to roost there, flies around the space the tree once occupied as if desperately looking for it,....its quite sad.
I'm in Vienna doing art research. Noticing in galleries how the few female artists on show are often referenced in context of their male partners (whose names even appear 1st in the text!)- and how this not the case for male artists with artist spouses or influencers.