Scared of Female Imagery as a Symbol of Power? -Judy Chicago
Scared of Female Imagery as a Symbol of Power?The content of this class has made me aware of a lot actually. Before this class I never looked at what sex a painter was when I looked at his or her paintings. I just looked at all paintings equally, to see which ones I liked and which ones I didn’t like. I just thought that there were more male artists than female artists. I never knew that under the surface there was so much sexism in art. But now I know that female artists were and are still being repressed. Why is it so hard for women to get credit for their art? Why do people just assume that because the artist is a woman, her art is not as good as her male colleagues? When Judy Chicago opened her monumental piece of art, The Dinner Party, to the public in 1978 at the San Francisco Museum, there were many different opinions about her “art”. It was a beautiful work of art, a large triangular table, stretching 48 feet on each side and set on a raised platform. It was covered with 2,3000 hand-cast tiles, on which are written the names of 999 significant women in history. The triangle was selected as the earliest symbol of female power and the sign of the goddess. Each side of the equilateral triangle holds thirteen
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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