Sunday, January 22, 2006

the Art of Females

Recently, while trying to create a project for my 1st year students I was searching for 20th Century Female figurative artists. Now first off, it is sad that I could name few on my own. But when i searched it was tough enough to find them on the internet as well. I did find a good link to a general list of female artists here it is:
Woman Artists
Now, I was trying to find 'masters' but that term seems to either be over-used in the case of male artists and under-used in the case of female artists.
It also shows a failing in my art education, specifically from an art history stand point that there wasn't enough emphasis put on this important and large segment of the art world. This should be addressed as it seems there is a small majority of females to males taking art at the college or university level.

Moving on, there also needs to be more education in Canadian art history. Not enough of the students I have contact with know who F.H Varley or the Group of Seven are let alone Painters Eleven and others.

Anyway, just had to make that point and I hope the link helps you out.