Tuesday, April 23, 2013


The Guerilla Girls Step Up

I thought this was something interesting to read about. Lately during my research I have been finding a lot of things on discrimination against women and painters comparing them as lesser versions of male artists. Personally I have a hard time with this topic because one) I hate sexism and two) what does gender have to do with the quality of someone's technique? This article, called women Artists Still Face Discrimination by Eleanor Bader from Truthout, talks about how an anonymous group known as the Guerilla Girls went to a museum recently and found it insulting lacking woman artists. A good portion of the nudes were of women as well and this brought up a big dispute that the women confronted. They believe that because corporate businesses and art markets play a huge part in the investment in art exhibitions like this they have a greater portion in what type of art should be shown. they basically dictate what is to be shown and what is not and if this is the case, the women of the Guerilla Group want to know why a good lot of the art pieces are from men and use women as simple objects to view. These women take on the name of some past artists that stood for such a thing, like Frida Kahlo (an artist that I mentioned before hand). I think this might be a good to look into if you art interested in the art community because I think if enough people/groups like this publically point out flaws in systems like the art market, then maybe something can be changed.

Here is a link to check it out!

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8971-women-artists-still-face-discrimination

-Justine Samaha

Woman artist/painter struggling, from the article mentioned above.

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