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Feminist Art
The feminist movement in visual arts – that is, a belief in making art in
some way specifically addresses women’s poli?cal consciousness – arose
at the same ?me that feminism became a widespread na?onal poli?cal
issue in the United States, about 1970.
Judy Chicago
• Born in 1939, Judy Chicago achieved prominence with "The Dinner Party"
which celebrated women's achievements and
lesser‐known women of history. She was an early promoter of feminist art.
Her "The Birth Project" focused on images of birth, a theme that Judy Chicago
found missing in art's history.
• sculptor
• Organized the first feminist‐art course, at California
State College at Fresno in 1970.
Judy Chicago
“The Dinner Party”
“The birth project”
Miriam Schapiro
Born in 1923 in Toronto, Ontario.
Schapiro found success early as a hard‐edge geometric‐style painter. Influenced
by the feminist movement of the early 1970s, she changed her style radically,
embracing the use of tex?les as symbolic of feminine labor. She is credited with
establishing the movement called Pa[ern and Decora?on (or P & D). This art
movement challenged tradi?onal Western European art by foregrounding
decora?ve pa[erns and tex?les from other cultures such as Chinese, Indian,
Islamic, and Mexican.
Schapiro coined the term "femmage," which stands for the female laborer's
hand‐sewn work (such as embroidery, quil?ng, cross‐s?tching, etc.) that rivals and
precedes the "high‐art" collage.
Miriam Schapiro
“Anatomy of a Kimono”
“Conservatory (Portrait of Frida Kahlo)”
Guerrilla Girls
In 1985, a group of women ar?sts founded the Guerrilla Girls. They assumed
the names of dead women ar?sts and wore gorilla masks in public, concealing their
iden??es and focusing on the issues rather than their personali?es. Between
1985 and 2000, close to 100 women, working collec?vely and anonymously,
produced posters, billboards, public ac?ons, books and other projects to make
feminism funny and fashionable. At the turn of the millennium, three separate
and independent incorporated groups formed to bring fake fur and feminism to
new fron?ers.
Guerrilla Girls
Super Realism
Super Realism
A.k.a. Hyperrealism, Photo‐Realism, Sharp‐Focus Realism. Although Malcolm Morley (1931 ‐ )
coined the term "Super‐Realism" in 1965, this primarily U.S. style of pain?ng and sculpture
emerged in the 1970s. Ar?sts here use photographs and body casts to a[ain an excrucia?ng
degree of realis?c detail, resul?ng in "the characteris?cally cool, impersonal appearance, the
preoccupa?on with common or industrial subject ma[er”, but also as a result the works
paradoxically have an unreal quality. They thus bring up "issues of reality and ar?ficiality" since
the subject is twice removed: "an image of an image of life"
Duane Hanson (1925‐1996)
born Jan. 17, 1925, Alexandria, Minn., U.S. died Jan. 6, 1996, Boca Raton, Fla.
• American figura?ve sculptor whose lifelike figures made of cast fiberglass and
polyester resin and dressed in real clothes oien fooled the public into believing
that they were viewing real people.
Duane Hanson (1925‐1996)
“Tourists”
“Drug Addict”
Ralph Goings ( 1928‐ )
(May 9, 1928 in Corning, California) is an American painter closely associated with
the Photorealism movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is best known for
his highly detailed pain?ngs of hamburger stands, pick‐up trucks, and California
banks, portrayed in a deliberately objec?ve manner.
Ralph Goings ( 1928‐ )
“Girl On The Wall”
o/c 68 x 48 inches
1968
“Blue Chip Truck”
o/c 45 x 54
1969
“America's Chili Sauce”
watercolor 13 x 12 inches
2003
Richard Estes (1936 ‐ )
Born in Kewanee, Illinois, Richard Estes became a New York and Maine based ar?st,
earning a reputa?on for photo‐realist pain?ng aier working as a commercial ar?st.
He studied at the Art Ins?tute of Chicago from 1952 to 1956 and then spent ten years
in publishing and adver?sing in New York and in Spain.
The pain?ngs generally consist of reflec?ve, clean, and inanimate city and geometric
landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the interna?onal photo‐realist
movement of the late 1960s, with painters such as Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, an
Duane Hanson.
Richard Estes (1936 ‐ )
“Telephone Booths”
1968
“Nedick's”
1970
“Hotel Empire”
1987
“34th Street Cross Town Bus”
2009
“Broadway Bus Stop,
Near Lincoln Center”
2010
Chuck Close (1940 ‐ )
Chuck Close (born 1940) is an American photorealist specializing in close‐up portraits
and self‐portraits. Close is one of the very few modern realists or photo realists who
focus on the human face.
In 1988, in mid‐career, Close was paralyzed due to a blood clot in his spinal column.
He regained par?al use of his arms, and was able to return to pain?ng aier developing
techniques which allowed him to work from a wheelchair.
Chuck Close (1940 ‐ )
“ Art can turn you into a monster,
or a fine human being”
Thank you!