women artists that you should know about!!
-Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660)
During her life her works were highly recognized, but she got forgotten after her death and rediscovered in the 19th century. In her paintings could be identified the acronym "JL", asually followed by a star, she was the first woman to be inserted in the Guild of St. Luke, the guild Haarlem's artists.
-Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593-1656)
"... Si è talmente appraticata che posso osar de dire che hoggi non ci sia pare a lei, havendo fatto opere che forse i principali maestri di questa professione non arrivano al suo sapere". This is how the father Orazio talked about his nineteen year old daughter to the Medici's court in Florence.
In 1611, Artemisia got raped, and she had to Undergo a humiliating trial, just to marry so that she could "Restore one's reputation" , according to the morality of the time. Only after a few years Artemisia managed to regain her value, in Florence, in Rome, in Naples and even in England, her oldest surviving work is "Susanna and the elders".
-Elisabeth Louise Vigèe Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)
She was a potrait artists who created herself a name during the Ancien Règime, serving as the potrait painting of the Queen of France Marie Antoinette, she painted 600 portraits and 200 landscapes in the course of her life.
-Augusta Savage (Afro-American, 1892-1962)
Augusta started making figures when she was a child, which most of them were small animals made out of red clay of her hometown, she kept model claying, and during 1919, at the Palm Beach County Fair, she won $25 prize and ribbon for most original exhibit. After completing her studies, Savage worked in Manhattan steam laundries to support her family along with herself. After a violent stalking made by Joe Gould that lasted for two decades, the stalker died in 1957 after getting lobotomized. In 2004, a public high school, Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, in Baltimore, opened.
-Marie Ellenrieder (German,1791-1863)
She was known for her portraits and religious paintings. During a two years long stay in Rome, she met some Nazarenes (group of early 19th century German romantic painters who wanted to revive spirituality in art),after becoming a student of Friedrich Overbeck and after being heavily influenced by a friend, she began painting religious image, getting heavily inspired by the Italian renaissance, more specifically by the artist Raphael. In 1829, she became a court painter to Grand Duchess Sophie of Baden.
-Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (French,1841-1893)
Morisot studied at the Louvre, where she met Edouard Manet, which became her friend and professor. During 1874 she participated at her first Impressionist exhibition, and in 1892 sets up her own solo exhibition.
-Edmonia Lewis or also called "wildfire" (mixed African-American and Native American 1844-1907)
Edmonia was born in Upstate New York but she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. She was the first ever African American and Native American sculptor to achieve national and international fame, she began to gain prominence in the USA during the Civil Ware. She was the first black woman artist who has participated and has been recognized to any extent by the American artistic mainstream. She Also in on Molefi Kete Asante's list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
-Marie Gulliemine Benoist (French, 1768-1826)
Daughter of a civil servant, Marie was A pupil of Jaques-Louis David, whose she shared the revolutionary ideas with, painting innovative works that have caused whose revolutionary ideals he shared, painting innovative works that caused discussion. She opened a school for young girl artists, but the marriage with the banker Benoist and the political career Of the husband had slowly had effect on her artistic career, forcing her to stop painting. Her most famous work is Potrait of Madeline, which six years before slavery was abolished, so that painting became a simbol for women's emancipation and black people's rights.
-Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552-1614)
She is remembered for being the first woman artist to paint an altarpiece and for painting the first female nude by a woman (Minerva in the act of dressing), commissioned by Scipione Borghese.
-Elisabetta Sirani. (Italian, 1698-1665)
Her admirable artistic skills, that would vary from painting, drawing and engraving, permitted her, in 1660, to enter in the National Academy of S. Luca, making her work as s professor. After two years she replaced her father in his work of his Artistic workshop, turning it into an art schools for girls, becoming the first woman in Europe to have a girls' school of painting, like Artemisia Gentileschi, she represent female characters as strong and proud, mainly drawn from Greek and Roman stories. (ex. Timoclea Kills The Captain of Alexander the Great, 1659).
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Midnight Pals: Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the big gothic house
Moreno-Garcia: in Mexico
Moreno-Garcia: you might even call it
Moreno-Garcia: mexican gothic
Moreno-Garcia: so there's this debutante from Mexico City
Moreno-Garcia: and she has to visit her cousin who's married this weird english guy
Moreno-Garcia: and now lives in this big creepy house in the boonies with his weirdly english family
Moreno-Garcia: being weirdly english
Moreno-Garcia: so the mexican woman from the big city has to deal with these weird secluded in-bred white people
Lovecraft: what kind of topsy turvy world is this
Lovecraft: up is down, black is white
Lovecraft: i just don't know what to believe!
Moreno-Garcia: these english people, let me tell you
Moreno-Garcia: they love to just sit around, being mopey, eating shitty english food, refusing to mix with the locals, formulating weird race science theories
Lovecraft: i really don't see the problem
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
King: oh mary you're just in time, silvia was telling a gothic story
Shelley: oh she's gonna tell a gothic story eh? you hear that fellas
Ann Radcliffe: i hear that
Matthew "Monk" Lewis: is that so
Shelley: my original goths will be the judge of this
Shelley: you think you're gonna do some gothic? that's cute
Shelley: has the family patriarch got a dead wife?
Moreno-Garcia: he's got two
Shelley: oh damn i take it back
Shelley: that IS gothic
Lewis: that's hard core
Radcliffe: TWO dead wives?!??!
Moreno-Garcia: and there's a family plot that's got marble busts of the dead wife
Shelley: oh hell yeah that's the way to do it
Lewis: you gotta have the busts
Radcliffe: oh yeah definitely you gotta have em
Shelley: how about this protagonist? pale, likes to faint, right?
Moreno-Garcia: no she loves to party and smoke cigarettes
Shelley:
Lewis:
Radcliffe:
Shelley: damn what a twist!
Lewis: i never considered that angle
Radcliffe: a whole new grid
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Tumblr Book Clubs I am Currently Following, in order of how hard I think they would be to catch up on if you wanted to join the fun:
Around the World Hourly (Around the World in Eighty Days with entries sent according to the in-story hour of events, started Oct 2)
The Public Domain Book Club (started Frankenstein for the month of October on Oct 1)
Lord of the Rings Newsletter (started late September with some very long posts, but will be variable length as they follow the dates of events in the story)
Dracula Daily via Re:Dracula (chronological Dracula by Bram Stoker - OK, you've missed most of this one, but the audio format is very engaging - you could still catch up for the exciting conclusion!)
My Dear Wormwood (The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis - 22 short letters so far, posted on a weekly basis)
What Manner of Man (original vampire romance by St John Starling - 24 shortish and very fun chapters so far, posted on a weekly basis)
Whale Weekly (Moby Dick by Herman Melville with roughly chronological timescale - we're 70-some chapters in but there are often long breaks between them so you could probably catch up)
Les Mis Letters (a chapter of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo every day for a year - catch-up difficulty level: impossible)
Please add your own!
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