Women Artists
Exhibition celebrates female artistic trailblazers
A new exhibition celebrates women who were determined to paint in an era when art was dominated by men.
Another View: Landscapes by Women Artists at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Wirral, highlights their place in the history of British landscape art.
It tells the story of women artists’ growing ambition and how they got more of a foothold in the art world.
The title of this show of British women artists from 1520-1920 at Tate Britain is highly apt. ‘Now You See Us’ contains just the right amount of ironic sang-froid that has taken the best part of half a millennium for women to become visible as professional artists, having been sidelined or judged inferior for most of that time.
At best, women were considered ‘gifted amateurs’ whose work was less substance and significant than their male peers. Art history has primarily been written by men who sought to underline sexual differences and emphasise that women belonged to the domestic rather than the professional realm.
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