Post 4 17th and 18th Century & HW - Jahkai

Guerrilla Girls

"While the male academics were off painting the "important" subjects of war and the gods, most women artists of the 17th and 18th centuries kept the home fires burning, perfecting the areas where they were allowed to excel"


Classic example of women not being to excel through artistic methods. Even though some women kept pushing through and made "heroic" efforts to beat men at their own game. But this talks about how women are still being pushed to stay at home.




Chadwick Chap. 4




“By the seventeenth century, Northern European art was dominated by new, middle class ideals reflecting the growth of commerce and the Protestant Church.”

This quote puts religious & social context on the art that was being made back then. This art could’ve pushed more women to want more opportunities.




“The dutch translation of Cesare Ripa's well known Iconologia in 1644 introduced a wide variety of allegorical female figures into northern art"




Ripa's Iconologia was like a sourcebook, and through this sourcebook women became images through. Like justice & wisdom, becoming visuals of these symbolic meanings.







Chadwick Chap. 5




"As long as the woman artist presented a self-image emphasizing beauty, gracefulness, and modesty, and as long as her paintings appeared to confirm this construction, she could, albeit with difficulty, negotiate a role for herself in the world of public art."




This quote shows progress, but not any good type of progress. Women could now get into the world of public art, but after building such a flawless record of what they do, having to be this perfect model.




"For women aspiring to history painting and Academy membership, "unnatural" ambition had to mediated by strict formality to the social ideology of femininity."




Women had no room to be creative, which is why I choose this quote, this quote shows the box women were put in even though they were able to create art. Still being stuck behind those social ideologies.






Francoise Duparc late eighteenth century

This painting shows a women knitting, not being romanticized, she's in plain clothing with a natural light. She's a human, the everyday low-class woman. Not a god or a high ranking noble, but someone people can relate to and recognize as an everyday person. It shows that women are hardworking and overlooked.