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My Friend Jane (she is a feminist, queen)

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Feminist Art is an art movement that arose in the late 1960s in the United States. Feminist Art was a part of the feminist movement that took place in the 60s and 70s by women, who were feminists, who believed in the advancement of women in society. The movement was focused around the female experience and the idea of challenging how dominant men were in the art world. Feminist Art utilized a variety of mediums to send feminist messages.

Female artists would tell their life experiences about what life is like as a woman through their art. Some examples include making art about common things that women were expected to do, such as being homemakers; domestic violence and sexual harassment; the incorrect assumption that women were inferior to men; the commodification of the female body; women having equal opportunities in the workforce; or any other issue that the feminist movement was concerned with.

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In 1971, Linda Nochlin, renowned art critic, historian, writer, and researcher, wrote an essay titled "Why have there been no great women artists?". The essay attempts to answer the question that its title suggests, why are there no women artists? In the essay, Nochlin explores the idea that the reason there had been no great women artists is not because women were not great artists, but because society had not allowed for it. The patriarchal society had trained everyone to believe that only men had the talent and ability to be talented artists. Women were not trained to be artists because they were taught that they had other duties to fulfill, such as being housewives. However, women have just as much innate ability to be talented artists as men do.

The essay was a call to action for two things. The first, Nochlin was calling for more women to be brave enough to follow their passions and create art. She believed that these women had just as much potential to be successful artists as men do. The second, Nochlin called for people to retroactively appreciate the many pieces of art that had already been created by women. Women had created art in the past, people just had not taken the time to admire it for what it was truly worth. Nochlin wanted people to understand that good art created by women already existed, and it was time to let that be known.

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One of the biggest influences of the feminist art movement was the overarching feminist movement.  The feminist movement began in the early 1960s and continued into the 1980s. The overall idea of the movement was to give women an equal voice and opportunity of women. There was no true difference between men and women, and yet they had been treated differently for so long. The feminist movement called for this precept to be brought to an end.

The feminist movement about achieving their goals in many different. These actions included marches with lots of signs, rallies, they tried to get the equal rights amendment passed, petitions, they gave speeches, they ran for office, they published essays, advertisements, and of course, they made art! Art was one of the many ways that feminists attempted to accomplish their goals, and therefore the feminist movement was a huge influence on feminist art.

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Judy Chicago is a great example of a feminist artist. Judy Chicago was a professor at California State University Fresno, where she founded the first feminist art program in the United States. Her large collaborative art pieces examine the role of women in history and culture. She had crazy purple hair.

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The Guerrilla Girls were an anonymous group of feminist artists that began in the 1980s. The group of artists used "disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics" to convey their feminist messages. They are still making feminist art to this day.

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Shirin Neshat grew up in Iran and moved to the United States. She takes photographs of women in the traditional headdress and then draws on their skin. She uses these photographs to emphasize her feminist ideals. She is a great example of an artist from the feminist art movement.

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Barbara Kruger was a feminist art queen. She is well known for taking photographs and placing text on top of said photographs, like in the piece of art pictured above. The text commonly featured ironic phrases that poked fun at common stereotypes of women. But in reality, Barbara Kruger did not actually believe these things, she just put them on her artwork to get a reaction out of people. Her use of irony and humor is a a feature of postmodernism.

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Sarah Lucas was an artist that typically made sculptures. These sculptures were typically alarming sculptures of the female body, used to portray important messages about the feminist movement.