Women, Art and Power

[python_regius]

                                        Marie-Denise Villers (1774–1821) Portrait of Young Woman Drawing


So, why haven't there been any great women artists?

Nochlin's answer is two-fold: first, the myth of artistic genius, which has been a part of art writing since Pliny, makes it seem that anyone with true artistic gifts would naturally make themselves known as a genius, preferably to some famous teacher, and then quickly surpass the teacher in skill. The inherent genius inside these great artists always refuses to be kept hidden, despite their own lack of fortune or common sense.

This idea of artistic genius, says Nochlin, is a fantasy. Art is rarely (and great art certainly never is) created solely by the artist for the purpose of personal expression. Instead, if we look at art as the sum total of patronage and production and purpose, we see that there was a whole system in place that excluded women from creating the type of work that made artists like Michelangelo and Raphael famous.

Comments

[v-i-n.livejournal.com]

Что за прелестная картина! Такое светлое письмо...

[yoru-ti-neko.livejournal.com]

Вирджиния Вульф высказывала похожие мысли, только она говорила про литературу, а не про изобразительное искусство. Почему не было великих писательниц

http://notesbd.blogspot.ru/2009/04/prose-text-shakespeares-sister-virginia.html