Female Art Movement

movement continued, and men were introduced to new ideas that influenced them to rethink or understand the problem women faced. “I think artists transgress all boundaries and should not be segregated according to the comfortable academic riches supplies by curators, let alone by society. Man, woman, black, white… every artist is something”(From 1971: 8 artists reply).The idea of all artists must have the same worth, regarding their physical features. Their art is what creates them as a person, and the horror of not being able to be accepted is awful. The artists also explored many emotions, especially female artists. The female artists explored their emotions and convert their feelings and how they are seen in society into art. “... Women’s …show more content…
“Some men felt uncomfortable at least their first exposure to what was for them a totally unfamiliar world. They did not understand the rules of our world… men had to sense of not being in control. Men are generally encouraged by the culture to take control of life situational... (Through the flower ). Men had difficulties into understanding women’s point of view, and understand on how they’re equal to them. The exploration of art and how women really viewed themselves, as a human not an object.
Hannah Wilke, Miriam Schapiro, and Judy Chicago were key individuals into this “movement”. Hannah Wilke was important because she addresses on how women are presented in society in the 1960s-1970s. Miriam Schapiro was essential because she was the first to take a stand along with Judy Chicago. These three artists faced many complications and expresses them in variety used of art. “... during the ‘70s, Schapiro began a theorize what she called ‘femmage’ or a type of art that collaged materials like cloth, paint, fabric… in her definition of femmage; Schapiro wrote that the style… has a ‘women-life context’ and ‘celebrates a private …show more content…
One specific program that pushed and improved the movement, was the Womenhouse. The program was founded by Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago, and the program was to help women express themselves without being pressured into being an identity they are not. “The first feminist art education programs, with artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro helping to lay the foundation; about the legendary Womenhouse… the development of the movement as seen in… the emergence of feminist art”(Power of fem art). The womenhouse was made in order to be accepted in the art world as themselves, not based on any other factor. The struggles of women expressing themselves caused the program to emerge. “It seems to me that growth takes place by starting where we really are and moving on. We women have spent much of our time hiding who we are, because we have been made it possible for all of us to be ourselves and to show others who we were in actions and art”(Through the flower). “Schapiro’s art could be found in the Dollhouse that in… ‘the beauty, charm, and supposed safety and comfort of home with the unnamable terrors existing of its walls…”(MS a leader of the fem) (Needs a little