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Oct 21, 2015 · Now, on the 40th anniversary of its inception, the tome forms the basis of a dynamic new exhibition – The Body As Language: Women and Performance – which traces the evolution of the movement during 1970s Italy through a feminist lens. Here, we pinpoint five of the pioneering women featured in the show and their genre-defining works.
- Performance
Art & Photography Four Artists and Writers on the...
- Sam Johnson
Art & Photography How Helena Almeida's Body Became Her...
- The Body as Language
A thought-provoking blend of high fashion, art and culture...
- Feminism
Art & Photography Sarah Lucas Delves Into Her Rebellious New...
- Performance
- The Female Nude: Between Art and Obscenity
- Prehistory: The Fertility Nude and The "Realistic" Nude
- Rock Paintings of The Tassili N'ajjer
- Ancient Egypt: Beauty to Be Carried Into The Afterlife
- Ancient Greece: The Body Like That of Aphrodite
- Attic Red-Figure Kylix of Onesimos
- The Roman World: The Erotic Art of Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Fresco of The Venus in A Shell - Pompeii
- Medieval Age: The Nakedness of Eve
- Expulsion of The Progenitors from Eden (1424-1425) by Masaccio
Although some of the aforementioned types of depictions of the female body appear clearly artistic and hardly scandalous, in most societies of the past women, probably because they enjoyed fewer rights than men, were rarely released from a representation predominantly associated with sexuality. For this very reason, it seems likely that only when w...
In Paleolithic art, female nudity was closely linked to the worship of fertility deities. This is evident in the earliest representations of the female human body form, which are called "Paleolithic Venuses," characterized by the prorompetent features of obese women with wide hips and breasts, which protrude or hang downward. Most of them date from...
The Tassili n'Ajjer is a mountain range located in southeastern Algeria, near the border with Libya. Much of that plateau, which is home to cypress trees and ancient sites, is protected by a National Park, a Biosphere Reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In terms of female nudity, the Tassili n'Ajjer is known for its rock art, which, dating ba...
It is important to note a fundamental element of ancient Egyptian figurative culture: in the works of the period, it is quite rare to find women depicted in their later or mature years. In fact, female characters were depicted slender, beautiful and in their prime, features that, precisely because they were immortalized by art, it was hoped that th...
In ancient Greece, the ideal woman had to have soft forms, enhanced by round buttocks, long hair with waves, and a flawless beautiful face. Such requirements suited a time when having more fat on the body meant being wealthy, that is, being able to afford to eat well, distinguishing oneself from the lower and hungrier social classes. In this contex...
An example of these early approaches to the female nude in painting is the red-figure Attic Kylix, attributed to Onesimos (500 - 480 BCE), a work in which a nude, reclining woman is playing kottabos, a popular activity in the masculine symposium festival. In fact, following the tradition of the event, the girl with the handle of a deep cup (skyphos...
Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum was brought to light through a long series of archaeological excavations that began in the 18th century. This very activity revealed how the said site was rich in erotic art, depicted both in the form of frescoes and sculptures. The peculiarities of such subjects indicate that Roman customs were more liberal th...
The House of the Venus in Shell, a site discovered between 1933 and 1935, features a large peristyle, which is essentially the center of the domus. This very room was overlooked by the various rooms of the house, having walls decorated in the Pompeian IV style. In reality, however, the house is named after its most famous fresco, namely the Venus i...
In medieval times, following the spread of culture derived from Christianity, the body began to be intense as the sacred temple of the soul, which had to be preserved at all costs from carnal impulses, harbingers of grave sins in the sight of God. Despite such assumptions, vice continued to run rampant, so much so that it was in the sensuality of t...
The Expulsion of the progenitors from Eden is a fresco by Masaccio, located in the Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. It shows Adam and Eve after they have broken God's rules and thus eaten the fruit of knowledge. In fact, they are shown naked and helpless as they are taken away from the Earthly Paradise. In real...
From 1972 to 1980 the Women’s Video Festival took place at The Kitchen in New York highlighting video artists who were still under-represented such as the Japanese artist Shigeko Kubota (1937-2015), a member of the Fluxus group.
Jun 23, 2015 · The show, “La Toilette: The Birth of Privacy,” brings together more than 100 works, including paintings, etchings and drawings, that reflect the most private moments in a woman’s day, as she...
Mar 4, 2017 · Currently on view at NADA, these five young emerging female artists pose new questions about intersectionality in feminist studies and the body's abstraction, obsession, and dissolution in the digital era.
In this article, we will take a closer look at some of the most notable paintings ever created that involve women and discuss the various elements that make them so well-known among the many artworks from each period. Famous Paintings of Women 1. Mona Lisa – Da Vinci
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Jun 9, 2021 · From Chilean performance artist Cecilia Vicuña there is the painting “Thenar Eminence” (2021), a multicoloured hand fading across the soft fleshy area at the base of the thumb that controls ...
