Women In Modern Art Selections

“Do woman have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” – Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Selections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female (The guerrilla girls). Throughout history the role of women in the creative industries and the cultural sector has drastically changed. Historical quote: Marina Sauer, L’histoire des femmes à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1880- 1923, tells for how long it was impossible to integrate the fine arts, then under conditions and finally they could fully participate. There was no question about the talent, but about the status of the artist. A segregation that women can not embrace an artistic career. There was a lot of gender inequality. As general speaking means an unequal level of any kind of aspects of life standard, downtrodden from one sex to another (chimeyangzom) . …show more content…
These culture industries offer products that have not only utility functions, but contain great aesthetic or semiotic content and provide status and identity to consumers (workinprogress). And they are an indispensable feature of the government’s plans for economic recovery and future prosperity (source). This has come to the point that today there is a general perception that the creative industries and the cultural sector are very “female friendly” looking at the high percentage of women working in public cultural institutions, or studying for a related degree. There is a believe that the art world, and more generally the world of culture, is fundamentally based on a spirit of freedom, an opposition to prejudices, and even by a certain taste for contravention (Unesco