{"id":127840,"date":"2023-02-23T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=127840"},"modified":"2023-02-24T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:14:10","slug":"painted-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=127840","title":{"rendered":"Painted, Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The topic and inspiration behind many of the greatest masterpieces of all time have been women. Gradually, they moved from behind the canvas to being in front and were inspired to express themselves through their own artistic accomplishments. Unfortunately, their work was often labelled as&nbsp;feminine&nbsp;seemingly to side-step artistic validation. Yet there are key voices from within the group, each one an individual vision, and the world is richer for it.  After all, women bring a unique standpoint across all of the creative arts, a voice we need to hear. Find out more In <em>Painted, Women<\/em> Here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The image on left-hand side, Janice Biala, Yellow Still Life c.1955 Oil on canvas, 162.6 x 129.5 cm Courtesy The Christian Levett Collection\u00a9 ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Isabel Bishop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe shocking (or not)  but in the 1800s the famous French art institution\u00a0\u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts\u00a0denied women of state-sponsored free training which led budding female artists to receive expensive private tutelage from artists or art teachers. Women artists were also not allowed to learn life drawing or participate in state commissions and competitions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Marie Bracquemond, a young woman at the time, who became a famous French Impressionist artist as well as a notable name in the Impressionist movement was a student of the celebrated artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres who also taught young ladies to paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">But of course, Bracquemond&nbsp;said that Ingres&nbsp;doubted&nbsp;the <em>courage and determination <\/em>of women artists. The male teacher would only ask women to paint flowers, fruits and portraits.&nbsp;Bracquemond\u2019s opinion not only reflects her own experience in an art studio but the general societal mindset about women artists which remained sadly stayed unchanged till the 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">This discrimination in art led female artists to lean towards Impressionism, expressionism and realism inspiring them to decode and create art reflecting contemporary life instead of historical themes; thus bringing with them modernism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elaine-de-Kooning-The-Bull-1959-.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elaine-de-Kooning-The-Bull-1959-.jpeg?resize=580%2C501&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elaine-de-Kooning-The-Bull-1959-.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elaine-de-Kooning-The-Bull-1959-.jpeg?resize=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elaine-de-Kooning-The-Bull-1959-.jpeg?resize=768%2C663&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Elaine de Kooning, The Bull, 1959 Acrylic and collage on Masonite 76.2 x 88.9 cm Courtesy The Christian Levett Collection, \u00a9 EdeK Trust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70\u00a0is the latest exhibition ( 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February \u2013 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0May) \u00a0hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery. \u00a0Consisting of 150 paintings belonging to 81 international women artists of a forgotten generation, the display highlights the\u00a0Abstract Expressionist movement\u00a0where female artists have proved themselves as competent competition for the dominant male painters of this movement. More than half of these artworks have never been displayed before in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The thematic exhibition gives gestural abstraction a platform to be f\u00eated with the work of these artists and takes the visitor on a journey of discovering how Abstraction is reflected through the practices of these women coming from varied backgrounds, culture, and societies after the repercussions of the Second World War\u00a0after all women had contributed unfailingly in the war efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The artists have been inspired to paint vivid observations of bold subjects from Fascism in East Asia and South America to the impact of Communism in Eastern Europe. &nbsp;Liberating themes like freedom of expression, perception and gesture within cultural contexts also transpired on canvas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition shows the work of famous names like Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler and international artists like&nbsp;Mozambican-Italian&nbsp;artist&nbsp;Bertina Lopes and the South Korean artist Wook Kyung Choi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Opening with \u201cApril Mood\u201d, a four-meter log abstract painting by Helen Frankenthaler, the first section shows how artists explored paint characteristics and devised their own form of composition and structure rather than following conventional techniques. Frankenthaler\u2019s work is accompanied by Marta Minuj\u00edn, an Argentinian artist who created painted textured surfaces by using lacquer, sand, chalk and carpenter\u2019s glue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Helen-Frankenthaler-April-Mood-1974.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Helen-Frankenthaler-April-Mood-1974.jpeg?resize=580%2C385&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Helen-Frankenthaler-April-Mood-1974.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Helen-Frankenthaler-April-Mood-1974.jpeg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Helen-Frankenthaler-April-Mood-1974.jpeg?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Helen Frankenthaler, April Mood, 1974, Acrylic on canvas 152 x 434 cm Courtesy of ASOM Collection\u00a9 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. \/ ARS, NY and DACS, London 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The artistic expressions in mythology and symbolism have also been underlined in the next section of the exhibition with works of Lee Krasner, Behjat Sadr, Bertina Lopes and&nbsp;Jay DeFeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lee-Krasner-Bald-Eagle-1955-1.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lee-Krasner-Bald-Eagle-1955-1.jpeg?resize=580%2C827&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lee-Krasner-Bald-Eagle-1955-1.jpeg?w=682&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lee-Krasner-Bald-Eagle-1955-1.jpeg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Lee Krasner, Bald Eagle, 1955. Oil, paper, and canvas collage on linen 195.6 x 130.8 cm Courtesy of ASOM Collection. \u00a9 2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cBald Eagle\u201d created in 1955 by Lee Krasner sheds a unique light on metamorphism. Iranian artist Behjat Sadr\u2019s untitled piece shows the supremacy of calligraphy against a dark background with emerging oppositional colors around a red heart. Bertina Lopes\u2019s work speaks about&nbsp;Mozambican iconography&nbsp;and the political situation of Mozambique.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The next group of artists expressed their inner selves with pure emotions with pieces by Ukrainian-born Janet Sobel, the Spanish artist Juanca&nbsp;Franc\u00e9s\u2019&nbsp;and&nbsp;Venezuelan artist Mercedes Pardo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Janet-Sobel-Illusion-of-Solidity-c.1945-1-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"917\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Janet-Sobel-Illusion-of-Solidity-c.1945-1-1.jpg?resize=580%2C917&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Janet-Sobel-Illusion-of-Solidity-c.1945-1-1.jpg?resize=648%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 648w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Janet-Sobel-Illusion-of-Solidity-c.1945-1-1.jpg?resize=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Janet-Sobel-Illusion-of-Solidity-c.1945-1-1.jpg?w=682&amp;ssl=1 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Janet Sobel Illusion of Solidity c.1945 Oil on canvas 109.2 \u00d7 68.6 cm Courtesy of ASOM Collection &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The collection then moves on to pieces which are strongly directed towards performance arts like dance and music. \u201cBlack Pagoda\u201d painted in 1959 is a masterpiece by the American artist Judith Godwin where she is inspired by the performances of the American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. The painting mimics modern dance movements by a strong angled element bearing similarities with the sweeping movements of the dancer and her troupe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The final fragment of this exhibition is a visual excursion through the artists\u2019 eyes where the subjects of their artwork are their own surroundings, rural towns and seascapes. Chinyee, a Chinese artist presents \u201cA Touch of Red\u201d where a subliminal idea is projected by bright colours amongst a green-colored foamless landscape. Taking the concept of backdrops further, Britta Ringvall paints \u201cSwedish Landscape\u201d where a peaceful rural scenery has been captured through a red-curtained window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">From the Whitechapel gallery to Barbican Art Gallery, female art with all its glory is being admired. Alice Neel\u2019s Hot&nbsp;Off The Griddle&nbsp;( 16 February- 21 May)has opened in Barbican Art Gallery. It is a collaborative presentation with the Centre Pompidou Paris and is Neel\u2019s largest exhibition in the UK which shows her work of 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/01.-Alice-Neel-at-the-age-of-29-1929.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/01.-Alice-Neel-at-the-age-of-29-1929.jpg?resize=580%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/01.-Alice-Neel-at-the-age-of-29-1929.jpg?w=682&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/01.-Alice-Neel-at-the-age-of-29-1929.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Based in New York, Neel carved her own niche by painting figuratively when it was thought to be unconventional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Named the \u201cCourt painter of the underground\u201d, her art shows unique subjects such as pregnant females, civil rights activists, queer activists and Black and Puerto Rican children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/03.-Support-the-Union-1937.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/03.-Support-the-Union-1937.jpg?resize=580%2C440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/03.-Support-the-Union-1937.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/03.-Support-the-Union-1937.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/03.-Support-the-Union-1937.jpg?resize=768%2C583&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Alice Neel. Support the Union, 1937<br \/>\u00a9 The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Her work is a historic documentation of New York\u2019s bohemian era. Neel\u2019s own character bearing \u201chypersensitivity\u201d and \u201cthe will of the devil\u201d provoked her to be an artist. She claims that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2018<strong><em>One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by, right hot off the griddle&#8230; the vitality is taken out of real living\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Alice Neel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Neel created artwork which was considered scandalously intimate at the time. In fact, a portrait of her friend and writer Joe Gould showing&nbsp;genitalia&nbsp;was not exhibited in public until 40 years after its creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/17.-John-Perreault-1972.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/17.-John-Perreault-1972.jpg?resize=580%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/17.-John-Perreault-1972.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/17.-John-Perreault-1972.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/17.-John-Perreault-1972.jpg?resize=768%2C530&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Alice Neel. John Perreault, 1972, <br \/>\u00a9 The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">During 1940-50, when she was financially unstable, she created mindful portraits of neighbours and friends to reflect on the inequalities and pressures on the psychology of the people she painted. Her portraiture skills also reached famous names such as Sam Brody, the Marxist filmmaker, Poet Frank O\u2019Hara,&nbsp;Jackie Curtis,&nbsp;the actor and star of Warhol\u2019s Factory&nbsp;and Harold Cruse, a communist mind of the times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;She made a political statement by dabbling in portraiture when Abstractionism was in vogue. Her subject matter showed her desire to respect humanity\u2019s vulnerability regardless of gender, colour, and class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23.-Annie-Sprinkle-1982.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23.-Annie-Sprinkle-1982.jpg?resize=580%2C716&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23.-Annie-Sprinkle-1982.jpg?w=682&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23.-Annie-Sprinkle-1982.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Alice Neel. Annie Sprinkle, 1982\u00a9 The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition showcases not only her vivid portraits but also historical material from that time like film, photography, and letters. \u201cPull my Daisy\u201d is a 1959 short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">It features Neel herself with an improvised narrative by Jack&nbsp;Kerouac&nbsp;and can be viewed at the Barbican alongside her full-sized self-portrait which was completed in 5 years when the artist turned 80. She painted her ageing body with all its eminence thus again breaking stereotypical conventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">All these women faced perils in making themselves established artists. The shifts in cultural mindsets initiated the Feminist Art Movement.&nbsp; The 60s saw the rise of the Feminist art movement where female artists set out to claim their place next to their male opponents thereby shifting gender stereotypes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">But it was not till the late 70s that the Feminist Art Movement was successful in creating spaces and opening windows to female representation. Women created art which spoke about their experiences and gender politics. During the 80\u2019s Feminist Art Movement took another historic turn bringing about Identity Art and Activist Art into existence thereby making women artists write their own art history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Both exhibitions have showcased that women across borders with their distinctive foresight and the will to create art in front of adversity and oppression have the artistic capabilities to leave an imprint on the art world and initiate a dialogue amplifying the female experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic and inspiration behind many of the greatest masterpieces of all time have been women. 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