Katy Hessel

The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the “readymade.” Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it’s never been told before.

The Story of Art Without Men

Emily Ormondroyd

But while it is vital we marvel at these women's successes, we should also question why they in particular received such recognition: are women only able to achieve greatness when they emulate successful men in style and subject matter?

[but] What makes modern art 'modern', as art historian Diane Radycki argues, is the participation of women artists. No longer always confined to working in a traditional social and artistic realm, under the guard of or dependent upon men, they turned their gaze onto themselves, claimed spaces of their own (and their earnings too), embraced sexual freedoms and, looking to the outside world, expressed how they saw this as they never hat before 

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