The Female Rage: A Celebration of Female Artists by Madalyn Fox https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4 The canon of Art History is dominantly composed of men. Ranging from the great masters of Caravaggio and Titian to the contemporary Jackson Pollock and Keith Haring, the art of women has been buried by patriarchal cultural and social norms. While women have begun to arise on the walls of museum exhibitions, their origins often begin with dark histories. Beginning with one of the earliest recognized female painters, Artemisia Gentileschi’s work is filled with emotion derived from her horrific story of sexual assault, something that is not strange to many viewers then and now. Throughout hundreds of years, women have been under the physical and metaphoric hand of man; this is even further exacerbated for women of color. Whether it be the male gaze, societal norms, or physical and emotional violence, female artists have been best able to channel the rage that is a result into beautiful art. Through this exhibition, you will be able to see that through different mediums, periods, compositions, and artists, all while sharing a variety of stories that can be relatable to many different people in a multitude of ways. en-us 2023-04-17 03:42:33 UTC 2025-10-09 13:53:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/270a.png Faith Ringgold, American People Series #20: Die, 1967. Oil on canvas, two panels, 72 x 144 in (182.9 x 365.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase; and gift of The Modern Women's Fund. mmf107 https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2564940100 2023-04-24 00:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2564940100 Mary Cassatt, In the Loge At the Opera, 1878, Oil on canvas, 81.28 x 66.04 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund. mmf107 https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2564941787 2023-04-24 01:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2564941787 Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, ca.1614–1620. Oil on canvas, 6’ 6 1/3”x 5’ 4", The Uffizi Gallery. mmf107 https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2564943081 2023-04-24 01:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2564943081 Hannah Höch, Dada-Ernst, 1920, Collage on paper, 18.6 x 16.6 cm, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. mmf107 https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2564945587 2023-04-24 01:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2564945587 Key Learning Objectives mmf107 https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2566037349 As you digitally walk through the gallery, keep this question in the back of your mind: Why were women kept out of the canon of art? 
  1. Art is a way of storytelling that often can be uncomfortable; but that discomfort is necessary to showcase the full narrative. 
  2. Throughout time, women are able to create figurative imagery to reflect their actual emotions and feelings while men are allowed to depict reality freely. 
  3. Often, radical female art depicts stories that are often not seen within the canon because of the normalization of white, heteronormative narratives of violence.  


]]> 2023-04-24 17:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2566037349 As an African-American woman, Ringgold hints at the composition Picasso's Guernica to highlight the tragedies of conflict by depicting the race wars occurring in the 1960s in the U.S.. By showcasing a variety of different people coming from different races, genders, and ages but of similar dress, Ringgold signifies that racism at the hands of the upper-class impacts everyone, especially the children of future generations. mmf107 https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2566353811 2023-04-24 23:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2566353811 As one of the few female Dadaist, Höch was in a unique position to use the themes of Dadaism, such as challenging the norms of society by shocking or confusing viewers, in her art. Höch was able to collage together different media snippets by juxtaposing aspects of the “new woman” with conservative female values; a conversation on the politics of women in society emerges from the paper. mmf107 https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2566358113 2023-04-24 23:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mmf107/qnzr8q7i5db16me4/wish/2566358113