Why are there so few female artists?
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- The ten most expensive paintings in history were painted by men. And of the $196 billion spent on art at auction in the last decade, women accounted for only 2% of sales. So why are so few female artists represented in the world of art?
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Narrated by Blanche Anderson.
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I have been collecting women artist paintings from the end of the 19th century through the middle of the 20th century for about 10 years. There were so many great artist that no one knows existed and their work is incredible. It is so good to see a video recognizing many of these forgotten women and hope a change can be made to bring recognition to their wonderful talent. Everything you have said about their lives is so true and I do hope that the institutions will consider including these wonderful paintings in their collections in the future to help right the gender bias from previous generations.
There is a very accurate 70 'feminist argument by Linda Nochlan writing " Why are there no great women artists. Thank you for this video, well done.
Berthe Morisot and Bridget Riley are my favourite female artists
There are so many talented female artists all over the world. Claudia Demonte who is artist herself organized the exhibition "Women of the World" in 2000, where female artists' works from 177 countries were exhibited. But not only one talented female artist in every country. Toyin Ojih Odutola, Peju Alatise, Ladi Kwali (Nigeria), Grace Salome Kwami, Betty Acquah, Constance Swaniker(Ghana), Prabha B, Shipra Bhattashariah, Anupam Sud, Gogi Saroj Pal (India), Oeur Sokuntewi (Cambodia), Eng Hwe Chu, Shia Yih Ying, Yuen Chee Ling (Malaysia), Lucia Hartini, Kartika Affandi (Indonesia), Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Pacita Abad, Geraldine Havier, Christina Taniguchi (Philippines), Ly Tran Quynh Giang, Pham Thi Nghia, Anh Duong (Vietnam), Janet Kigusiuq, Helen Kalvak, Jessie Oonark (Inuit), Safeya Binzagr, Hend Al-Mansour (Saudi Arabia), Helen Zughaib, Hugette Caland, Nada Akl (Lebanon), Khayrat Al-Saleh, Rima Farah (Syria), Riham Ghassib, Hind Nasser, Mona Saudi (Jordan), Tamam Al-Akhal, Vera Tamari, Afaf Zurayk (Palestine), Suad Al-Attar, Afifa Aleiby, Leila Kawash, Maysaloon Faraj, Khulood Da'mi (Iraq), Guity Novin, Samira Abbassi, Mitra Kamali, Negar Pooya, Samira Eskandarfar (Iran), Thuraya al-Baqsami (Kuweit), Alia al-Farsi (Oman), Wadha al-Sulaiti (Qatar), Sigal Tsabari, Edith Goel, Eilat Adar (Israel), Pan Yuliang, Sun Duoci, Qin Bailan (China), Sally Gabori, Julie Dowling (Aboriginal Australian), Veronique Tadjo, Joana Choumali (Ivory Coast). And many many others!!!
Eva Hesse was a complete genius, so daring and prolific. She makes me respond, asking questions in my state of wonder - isn't that what great art should do? I wish the Tate Modern would put on another exhibition of Hesse's work, like they did in 2003. It was wonderful, I didn't want to leave!
This is a great video. As a pianist, I enjoy the background music too. Thank you for posting this
Favorite femaile artist, no question, myself 👍😄🖌
Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois, Charlotte Perriand, Mary Cassatt, Vigee Le Brun and Dorothea Lange
This is a great reminder that it's women's history month!! I think I should indulge in more videos just like this one. I think that it's true that women don't get enough credit in the Art industry! I hope I get enough attention as far as my creativity goes!! I like being recognized for good things. Like fine art is a really good thing!! So this is something that makes me very happy!!
This is why I support other female artists by sharing their work and generally letting others know about them
Women History Month is Stupid.
Good to know. Great video. Thank you.
My favourite woman artist is a photojournalist, Margaret Bourke-White. I saw the Artist Rooms exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in late May 2019 featuring Diane Arbus, Francesca Woodman and Robert Mapplethorpe when I was visiting Edinburgh from Austin, Texas (USA). Although I have seen all of these artists presented individually in the past, I appreciated how well curated the Scottish National Galleries curated their artwork together. I would love to see larger art museums and galleries feature woman and LGBT artists internationally.
My most favorite is Remedios Varo surrealism. I read up bio of many female painter artists most had no children. Berthe Morisot another favorite had one daughter Julie Manet who also was artist painter.----Even today raising kids, housekeeping etc is little time for art.
Older mom, my daughter studies overseas. In between housekeeping I paint as hobby.
Thank You for this...
There are more than you think. They are just dismissed and unremembered.
Lee Krasner, Gabriele Munter and Etel Adnan are my favorite!
Frida Kahlo and Faith Ringgold
Effie Pechlivani I absolutely LOVE faith ringgold - I’ve started making a women artist series on my CZcams channel, think I’ll have to do one on her
Ana Mendieta, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Mickalene Thomas, (They/Them) Zanele Muholi, Doris Salcedo.
Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington are my favorite female artists 🎨😍!
My favorite is Frida Kahlo...
thanks for the tip!
What is the source of the article about Francis Morris and the Tate Modern?
Just a few Su Grierson, Madelon Hooykaas, Katherina Radeva, Miranda Whall, Diana Savova, Nina Czegledy, Mare Tralla, Marlene Millar, Alla Georgieva, Pam Skelton, Federica Marangoni and many more...
❤️ Wow... Everyone know name like Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Salvador Dalí, Francisco Goya etc. but any women? No... And some is it by writers and in every way of our human world...
Lili Boulanger, Sofia Gubaidulina.
Really good resource but so, so, white
: where are the female Black, Asian and minority ethnic artists and curators?
Change is slow, but things are changing. Shows like Joy Labinjo at the Frieze, Christina Quarles at the Hepworth Wakefield; curators like Lydia Yee at the Whitechapel Gallery. Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald painting the portraits of the Obamas. Wiley had a major exhibition in NYC recently. Change is happening and underrepresented people in the art world are being more recognised. But the sad fact is that the art world is very conservative and the shows follow the money.
Good point, also lack of disabled artists
Considering women in general are a small minority in the art world (10% of works in galleries, if I understood well), female artists in countries where they are also an ethnic minority are a *really* small group - I believe we should face this fact to change it.
Giovanna Garzoni is one of my favourites.
Margaret D. H. Keane, one favorite😍🙌🏾
I think the art world has been friendly female artist. When it comes to black artists not as much...Male or female
Katro Storm please check out my video on Augusta Savage - she faced horrible racism
@@arthistorygirl2327 I am definitely going to look this up right now
Thanks for the scoop
True, although I think both minorities cross, like an intersection, a black woman has less privilege than a white one, but a white man has more privilege tha said two women, you know? Its sucks anyway...
@@arthistorygirl2327 the more you look into the history of black artists, the more you will find that they all have faced a battle with racism... whether it was systemic or just aesthetic.
The world has been pretty tough on black artists.
Sorry didn’t realise that because of racism we shouldn’t discuss how destructive and prevalent sexism also is.
My favorite artist is Frida kahlo and Amrita Shergill
Agnes Martin, Ana Lupas, Hannah Ryggen, Anni Albers, Doris Salcedo, Ana Mendieta
Remedies Varo really rocks!
Louise Bourgeois is one of my favourites. Georgia O'Keeffe, Augusta Savage of the Harlem Renaissance, Cindy Sherman.
Jean McK I’ve made a video on Augusta Savage if fancy checking it out. She’s one of my faves too
200 years ago men often had 3 wives because so many women died at an early age often due to childbirth. Women were more fragile and still are and it was a man's world because of this. You may also ask, why are there so few artists who were not wealthy and of at least upper middle class - I believe we all know the answer to that also. I am grateful I live in a age with an electric dishwasher & a washer and dryer and I do not have 8 children like my Grandmother had and this gives me time to work in my studio!
Barbara Hepworth, Joan Eadley, Bridget Riley are just a few. JE is my favourite.
I liked what you have to say and my favorite female artist is myself Lori Wakefield
Wonderful, can we see ur art in some platforms? I am interested
Rachel Ruysch and Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun are my favorite female artists.
Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrignton and Frida Kahlo
I love Carrington.
Michelle Burgos please check out my women artist series
Gotta ask--is it partly because there are fewer female artists submitting their artwork to galleries?
Yes.
Anybody who can help identify the two women depicted around 6:49? First there's Louise Bourgeois - but who are the other two?
Joan Eardley is one I return to.
I’ll have to check her out - I’ve been making a female artist series on my CZcams - please have a look
i dont care about big drawing companies and old art i just see male and female art on tik tok or maybe because all the people i add are boy and girls and many artists tiktok is all art either dance or poems or game people made up that is popular now
the recommendations in this comment section are on point
All I see is white women
frida kahlo
Georgia O'Keeffe love her art!!!
Leonor Fini, Argentinian surrealist.
Georgia o keefe true to the form and celebrating her feminity maybe a little cliche but we need to recognize each other even when a male society doesn't...
The Big ! question is who is the largest number of collectors male or female ? and what are they collecting in terms of type, style, genre, era,Etc.... A third of my almost Twohunded artworks collected are female artists could it be the communication and view of the female artist artwork the type of art, not the female gender who painted it that separates them from the male artist collected? Humm ! I think the female artist could focus on a bigger female bais collector market to start and get the recognition they seem to need and want. Yes, Female artists have been wronged in the past by a greater degree of gender inequality. What about the other gender identifiers who may get even less recognition than females.
Let's just start with the female artists first. Women are the majority in the planet, so we need to be recognized and valorized.
@@quitaulla1569Are you a feminist ? who says that you need to be recognized and valorized ? whether man or woman regardless of grate number of females one must earn to be recognized on merit, not gender or numbers I don't think female artists are any less or singled out as artists per se, it would be easy to say that. It is like saying Mem are marginalized and less recognized than females because in department stores put women close up front and give 10 X more space and have more choices in clothing in the store and men are shoved in the back or in the corner of the store and fewer choices.
My favorite artist Is Stefania Russo
Elain de Kooning
Favorite Contemporary Female Artist: MW Collections
While I appreciate discussions surrounding the lack of female representation in art, I’m disappointed to see the lack of recognition for BIPOC. I would have liked to see a point made on intersectionality, and the ways in which feminism (white-feminism) continue to suppress WOC in similar ways patriarchy exists.
Why?
Who is the narrator here? It's another difficult aspect of women in art. Why isn't she acknowledged? How can I cite her?
it swore
at 5:06
Far and away JOY HESTER!!!!!!!
As told by nothing but white woman. What happens when you cross out "male" from the title of this video and replace it with "white". When is important art in the uk apparently all executed and curated by white people? You need to represent all ART. not just art by white people.
Even this well presented reportage was lacking. Where were the women of color? Surely Yayoi Kusama cant be the only bipoc represented in this critique of Art History's biggest blunder.
Black female artists were mostly in Africa! The asian one in asia. mHistory of art is thousands of years. Migration in quantity is a few hundred years. That's where the bipoc are, in bipoc land.
Question to male
Men also historically excelled at marble sculpting and other forms of stone sculpting also wood carving glass & clay molding because it is considered the heavy lifting of the art world
Make a National Competition of Female Artist and you’ll discover there are many.
competition in art? there is no such thing....art is subjective and the beauty of it is in the eye of the beholder
@@rafaelavega4923 obviously you are not an artist to understand the art world,not even an art historian. It’s my opinion either you like it ir not. Do you have anything to offer besides smart comments? To many hours in isolation I suppose.!
@@mariapilarme i hit a nerve it seems...go take some fresh air this isolation makes you act like a lunatic
We live in a male dominate egotistical world. That's why.
Ugh.
Most of the people I've seen in real life painting or doing other art is mostly women.
I don't think so, very many women who are inclined to art. Only they can hardly produce a body of work due to many tasks they pay attention especially when having a family.
are you replying to @Bartholomew Smutz - Mr. " In the art world as well as everywhere else women should start doing for themselves instead of sitting back and waiting for men to do it for them." troll?? or something else - for many women through the centuries have indeed produced brilliant bodies of artworks which have been suppressed or denounced or banned from either doing art or exhibiting.
I had replied to him:
" Add Artemisia Gentileschi to the list of artist you should look up to become better informed. Women have not and do not "sit back' although I would suspect that is your thinly veiled attempt at trolling. For while the brutality of males who live in fear of loosing power results in events such as the many who have been killed since protests against the hijab laws and morality police erupted after Mahsa Amini's death Sept. 16th 2022 women continue to stand up. The more people included in being acknowledged as artists the greater the creative world becomes for all. In Canada women only legally became 'persons' October 18th 1929 (yes less than 100 years ago); while women only got the right to work most jobs in The United Stated with the "1965 Weeks v. Southern Bell, " legal decision (currently in many states the male dominated government has decided women can not make choices about their own bodies); in much of the world women seeking the legal right to "do for themselves" has meant dying for the cause from suffragettes to those who dared to study Mechanical Engineering and due to a scared boy-man died in the École Polytechnique massacre. - No man need do anything for women other than to get out of the way. "
Sadly, no representation of women artist from various culture backgrounds.
this is a little unhelpful
There are thousands/millions of women artists.
It's that the canon-makers are men with no respect for women, artists or not.
Total bs...I spent $7k on artwork, from Jan. till today...3 were female, one male!
men are not evil because is womens month
you know why lol
as long as you approach it as something 'done to women', you will see yourself as passive. if you see it as how women view themselves, it will change.you are not victims at the hands of men, but of you own self-image.
Patronizing blaming women for lack of representation, or similarly black and indigenous people for for how they are treated by police shows a need for historical and contemporary research. While studies such as the Stanford Prison Experiment suggest (any randomized person) being in power can easily lead to abuse of power, where in western culture it has typically been white-males in this position until recently it is therefore less a 'self image' problem and more of a power imbalance which robs the world of the contributions of women, BIPOC, and 2SLGBTQI+ artists.
As I earlier replied to @Bartholomew Smutz's troll comment of "In the art world as well as everywhere else women should start doing for themselves instead of sitting back and waiting for men to do it for them." by writing:
"Add Artemisia Gentileschi to the list of artist you should look up to become better informed. Women have not and do not "sit back' although I would suspect that is your thinly veiled attempt at trolling. For while the brutality of males who live in fear of loosing power results in events such as the many who have been killed since protests against the hijab laws and morality police erupted after Mahsa Amini's death Sept. 16th 2022 women continue to stand up. The more people included in being acknowledged as artists the greater the creative world becomes for all. In Canada women only legally became 'persons' October 18th 1929 (yes less than 100 years ago); while women only got the right to work most jobs in The United Stated with the "1965 Weeks v. Southern Bell, " legal decision (currently in many states the male dominated government has decided women can not make choices about their own bodies); in much of the world women seeking the legal right to "do for themselves" has meant dying for the cause from suffragettes to those who dared to study Mechanical Engineering and due to a scared boy-man died in the École Polytechnique massacre. - No man need do anything for women other than to get out of the way."
Be a woman and then we can have this conversation., Your way of thinking would be different.
@@quitaulla1569 my point exactly
Make museums all over the world with only art from women and dedicate them to shine the light in past female artists.😍✌️💃🌺
The video complains that there are no female artists. You want a museum with only female artists. So you want an empty museum?
@@MrPaulTheG Educate yourself, there are many many many female artists.
@@quitaulla1569 It is not my argument, it is the video's argument. Instead on "educating", maybe you learn the basic of logic, critical thinking. I understand that blindly following the feminist mantra is reassuring but being a brainless sheep, however educated, is useless. Use your brain, we'll talk about my education when you know how to use it.
Because of sexism! I am an artist and people from galleries invested in young white males and not females. Once I was pushed out of a gallery without even let me show my art. Usually the same woman on museums are the one that discriminate women. Go to the LA county museum of Art and you will see how many females artist hung in that museum. I cried when I was there. Women should help women.
were those women middle aged? i feel many of these middle aged women are some times more misogynist than incels
I don't want to be a sexist, but the reality is, especially in cartoon styles (cute art, infographics, children book, etc), that females are acceptable to draw in that style and males who likes it are considered sissy or childish. And this kind of artist can be easily found at instagram, many of them aren't full-time artists and many of them have earned their own money from the sales (they sell commisions and/or things like stickers, washi tapes, pins, etc)
In realism arts, indeed, females are less. But in cartoony arts, females are acceptable and encouraged to do so and have been a common skill and males are considered gay to get such skill. And this simple art skill is handy for science-related subjects (math is also), in which we must draw
If we want equality, or fairness, don't make this double standard: if female are praised for doing "male" things, and aren't considered sexual disorder, then why are males considered gay to do "female" things?
Maybe they ain't got. Maybe because an artist is supposed to suffer and women have it easy. I'm being funny of course. Maybe they didn't care about doing art till recently history-wise.
Until the contraceptive pill, women were getting pregnant fast and early. Each time a woman has a baby, there's ~1-2 years where the primary focus is the baby. Not their choice, not my choice, just nature. Prior to the 20th century, having a baby was a dangerous endeavor. Women were dying way earlier and it was not uncommon for a man to be widowed many times. Due to these factors, it was not worth the investment having women in higher education. Higher education was also for the upper class only where women did not need to work, they were guaranteed to marry rich. Lower class men and women, on the other hand, were put to work as soon as possible. A work that brings food on the table, aka, not painting. In short there are many reasons why there isn't more women artists. Unfortunately, the focus is on one reason, probably one of the least important on. Because it benefits some people politically. This approach to history is destructive, dishonest and a great disservice to both men and women.
A lot of those female artist were held down as a result of the times they were living in but in general Men are more inventive and creative then women are. More men are Leaders where more women are Followers.. generally speaking
Actually women are more creative. Men are more practical
Maybe on average women lack the same drive to create great art as men or perhaps on average women just aren't as good at painting or other art as men because of differences in the brain or temperament. The same question can be asked as to why all the great classical music composers are men but women excel at singing opera or playing classical music with instruments but not composition. I get tired of hearing the same old argument that the only reason women don't excel at a particular pursuit to the same degree as men is is because they are being oppressed.
I doubt they don’t succeed because of men, though depending on the period, the task wasn’t easy. Great female artists were suppressed from the narrative to future generations because no one wrote about them even when they were great during their time. There is a really extensive list, but I’ll leave you with 2 names to explore Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana. They achieved accolades and recognition during their time. They later weren’t mentioned in texts.
@@ApiaArt I think a certain amount of obsessiveness can often lead to greater creativity and perhaps this trait is more common in men than women? Just a personal theory.
@Alice Amell In the art world as well as everywhere else women should start doing for themselves instead of sitting back and waiting for men to do it for them.
@@BartholomewSmutz if we're resorting to "personal theories", mine is that obsessiveness, passion and hyperfocus on something other than motherhood or your duties is kinda seen as negative for women back in the day and even today. Like c'mon even now if we speak a bit louder than usual we're hystericals and men are just "firm, strong". And this isn't a psychological analysis, it is a sociological one, of how people perceive men and women. Even though demands change over time, now late stage capitalism really undermine the value of artists (hence parents not allowing kids to be anything other than doctors or engineers), so for both genders it is tough to be an artist nowadays. But treatment was and still is unequal for women, period, and psychological analysis regarding all the female gender are usually not objective (they aren't naturally less obsessive than men, or anything like that, especially considering how western women context is different than poc women, latinas, asian women etc.). Not saying that male artists didn't struggle, not at all, the "hungry artist" stereotype comes from somewhere. But subjective analyses on a whole gender shouldn't justify prejudice. "Not all men, not all women" etc etc
Also I always found it weird that so many literary pieces described women as knowing how to play the piano (meaning this was fairly common back in the day), and yet we don't see a lot of "great" female pianists. Is it because they weren't fit for it? But who says who is fit and who is not? I cannot believe that all those women that could play piano were absolutely terrible musicians, otherwise this wouldn't be praised. It had a function, though: to teach your daughter the bare minimum to get a good husband, and that's all. The education stopped when you married, it was just enough for you not to be seen as a total idiot. This is very limiting since piano is a very hard instrument to domain, and again, it is not because of natural changes in brain, because women can and they do play the piano in concerts, orchestras, everywhere. We listen to female pianists today when we tune for some classical music on Spotify, and they play beautifully. About opera, though, I think the answer is very simple: female vocal chords are thinner so it is easier to achieve a high vocal range. Not really a big deal there, no "drive", no "talent", just biology, I think.
As a Man starving artist who is surrounded by female artist i find this hilarious... saying there's few female artist by comparing it with the 18 century........
Has nothing whatsoever to do with colour of skin whether there are black or yellow or pink white brown Artists, or not.
Has to do with the Era. The real work of men and women.
Even in 2023 a woman in her 30’s unless she remains childless- is hugely challenged to fulfil her creative
pursuits.
Unless she is financially secure & can Nanny off her children.
Women still rebel and get ruffled up when they are reminded, they bring the next generations into existence. And to do that justice she needs to give something up.
Frieda Kalo
hugely successful
With dark skin too, compromised by having an unusual living arrangement.
Women are as creative as - well - men, but they lack the singular focus and drive to
make it.
Men are fundamentally Great at Art. It's an evolutionary thing based on perfectionism which is why Men excel. Triggered ?
I am a man and also a sculptor/painter, and there are very few female artist that I can say are real artists. Käthe Kollwitz, and Mary Cassatt, are two that are extremely admirable as actual fine artists. The reason is NOT because men are being featured in the art world because of "it's a man's world" but because women "artists" , more often than not, have a perspective on life that does not translate well into art, and that holds true for men as well. HOWEVER, this does not mean women cannot be true artists, it has happened throughout art history, from the renaissance to present day, most people who say they are artists simply are NOT artists. If you can draw, paint, or sculpt, DOES NOT make you an artist. If you say, "I am expressing myself through this medium" I can almost certainly say you are not an artist. Making marks on paper, canvas, or clay has NOTHING to do with true art! I don't want to discourage anyone, male or female, from perusing the field of fine art, but have no doubts, that it is far more rigorous a pursuit, and has nothing to do with being a man or woman. This video is just another attempt of women to say " I am being ignored because of......( insert typical reasons) " An example of a current true fine artist is Cristina Córdova. Yayoi Kusama , in my opinion, is NOT a true fine artist.
Agnes Martin, Ana Lupas, Hannah Ryggen, Ana Mendieta, Doris Salcedo, Anni Albers