1. FEMINIST ART

2. FEMINISM Background and Quick Facts:
*The feminist movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments made internationally in the name of equality (politically, socially, economically and culturally).
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3. FEMINIST ART Background and Quick Facts:
*Feminist art began in the 1960s and flourished throughout the 1970s .
*Feminist Art has been called "the most influential international movement of any during the postwar period" [1] and its effects continue to the present.
Feminist art also attempts to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art.
Feminist Art seeks greater visibility for women in art and art history.
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Gentischelli,
“Judith Slaying
Holofernes”.

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Mary Cassat, “The Child’s Bath”.
1893,Oil .

6. FEMINIST ART Frida Kahlo, “Self Portrait with
Cropped Hair “, oil on canvas,
1940.

7. Linda Nochlin, for example, read Black Iris III as a "morphological metaphor" for female genitalia, insisting that the connection is "immediate", "concrete", and "that the two meanings are almost interchangeable." In this merger of botany and anatomy, Nochlin found reflection of "the unity of the feminine and the natural order"
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Georgia O’Keeffe,
“Black Irises III”, 1926

8. Judy Chicago,
“The Dinner Party”, 1979.

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10. Kruger’s work merges found photographs from existing sources with aggressive text that addresses the struggle for power and control. Her trademark slogans question notions of feminism, consumerism, individual autonomy and desire. Interestingly enough her black-and-white images are appropriated from the mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she questions!
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“You Are a Captive Audience”
Barbara Kruger

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13. "The work is what it is and hopefully it’s seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work“
Cindy Sherman

14. Decode/ read this image in groups using a feminist critical lens.
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15. Jacques Louis David, “The Oath of the Horatii” 1786.

16. Decode/ read this image in groups using a feminist critical lens.
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17. Pablo Picasso, “ Les
Demoiselles D’Avignon”,
1907.

18. Decode/ read this image in groups using a feminist critical lens.
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19. Joyce Weiland, “ Reason Over Passion”, 1968.

20. Why Address Feminist Issues?
*Art can question the world in powerful ways...
*Female students can learn by using a critical lens
*Male students can learn by using a critical lens