Women, Art, and Society
1. The general exclusion of women from highly professionalized forms of art production like painting and sculpture, and the involvement of large numbers of women in craft production since the Renaissance, have solidified a hierarchical ordering of the visual arts.
- Women are excluded from artistic creation, but they can still create art through other means. Although they are not recognized, they still have a passion for art.
2. Little evidence remains as to how they were produced and it is impossible to identify whether the authors or scribes were male or female, yet we can assume from the existence of the double monasteries that both monks and nuns were involved in composing, copying, and illuminating manuscripts.
It is ironic that although people exclude women from art, but they still need women to help. Despite their crucial role in art, women are rarely recognized for their contributions.
Guerrilla Girls
1. "One of the biggest problems in identifying art made by women in the ancient world is that not much art from the period had survived. Wars, purges, acts of early Christian censorship, and two thousand years of decay have destroyed most of the originals."
- It can be reflected that there were very few women engaged in artistic creation a long time ago, so there are not many works of art left by female artists, and fewer works of art have been preserved after many changes over the years.
2. "Boardman doesn't have a single index entry on women artists in any of his many books on Greek art."
- This sentence shows that women artists at that time were ignored and even belittled, and people at that time were not optimistic about women artists.
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