twenty or thirty years ago Maruja Torres journalist and writer coined the phrase, democracy and I with these hairs, would now : the art and I with these hairs. Because it is taking me by surprise that in the twenty-first century the figure of woman as artist-not to mention the role of women in other areas, still none for artists and intellectuals, critics, politicians ...
Some patronize We "attach" intelligence, but assert that there has been no genius among us, and if we go back to the bitter arts none is even more acute.
Who has ruled until now the genius of an artist? Critics and art historians about other artists, both men.
Who feels qualified to assess the contribution of an artist is more or less than that of an artist?
spoken of feminine sensibility ...
However, if we contemplated a painting without knowing the authorship of his creator, would know that gender sentencing humans belong?
The delicacy, sensitivity, are the only additives that we attach. "The force of revolution, transgression, provocation, clairvoyance etc. is the preserve of men?
Is art a matter of testosterone or progesterone? In my opinion, the works contain such ingredients as if it corresponds to one gender to another.
Why authors museums presence is virtually nil, or low intensity?
Why or rewards galleries paint the participation of selected and awarded creative is only 10%?
Is it true that not until the Renaissance "lights" or makes an appearance the first woman painter Sofonisba Anguissola? Many artists worked in the workshops of the Renaissance and beyond, or so at least I say every day @ s the art historian. I invite you to read a great article headed: Women who do not sign, Vincent Ibiza, he speaks of the daughters of painters like Tintoretto was devastated when his daughter Mary died, not only for their loss was also his right hand and is even said that his best works are authored or the Juan de Juanes etc.
How authenticates a signature? Is your authentic the undersigned owner?
note even then, why the "rankings" that tend to be men of genius in the arts or the works are essential in training, his taste, almost always men declare
... Why?
Crowd of women populate the landscape of artistic disciplines, everyone knows Goya, Velazquez, Picasso, however few or few know and recognize Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentilechi, Rosalba Carriera, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzales , Mary Cassatt, Sonia Delauny, Maruja Mallo, Rosario Varo, Camille Claudel, Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Marie Blanchard, Julia Alcayde, Carolina del Castillo, Catarinna van Hemessen, Judith Leyster, Aurelia de Sousa, Mary Bealy, Piatola Bacherini Anna, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Seraphine de Senlis, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Angelica Kauffmann, Labrille-Guiard Adelaide, Lilly Martin Spencer, Ellen Day Hale, Paula Modersohn-Beker, Helene Schjerfbeck, Romaine Brooks, Käthe Kollwitz, Fridel Dethelffes-Edelmann, Anna Moses, Vanessa Bell, Alice Nell, Jenny Saville, Maria Sorolla, Gwen John, Natalia Gonchanova, Carmen López del Castillo, Olga Rozanova, etc. etc. etc. The list is endless.
How many of his works are in museums face in books on art are mentioned in passing when it is mentioned, few know them, how the admired, those who excite them, few mention them as references ...?
In the year 84 is a group of artists and writers whose name of "war" Guerrilla Girls call themselves the "conscience of the art world, his identity kept hidden, not artistic and activist activities in order to open a gap in the history of painting.
O'keaffe With pseudonyms such as Georgia or Frida Kahlo, Tamara de Lempicka, one of its tenets:
Do women have to be naked to get into the Metropolitan? In the 90 declared:
If publicásemos our names our careers as artists die, lose their effectiveness and collective interests and they do not focus on the individuality of artists. Cecilio Plá
Gallardo painted a picture in 19 entitled: Women behind a curtain, we are still there.
I conclude, hoping that in the present and the future of not only the artists are treated as rare avis or dwelling in a dollhouse art of Ibsen rescue us or not being muses inspiring filmmakers. To be just value @ s artists alike for his contribution, ability to seduce, to move, to transgress, surprisingly, of passion, for his imagination, his talent, for his imagination, his genius, for his mystery, without discrimination or neglect or gender paternalism. Cecilio Pla Artwork
Gallardo, and testing of Paloma Blázquez
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