Female Artists

• Penzance、Worcester、Kirkcaldyの各美術館によるプロジェクト「Making Her Mark」では、Tracey Eminを含むクリエイターたちの作品が展示されています。 • コーンウォールのPenlee Houseのような多くの地方美術館のコレクションは、数世紀にわたり女性クリエイターが直面してきた不平等の名残により、男性アーティストが中心となる傾向にあります。 • しかし、美術館間の連携により、Penzanceの同施設を訪れる人々は、イギリスを代表する偉大な女性アーティストたちの作品を鑑賞できるようになります。

Show in part a rediscovery of more than 40 mostly forgotten women who plied their trade in the Low CountriesJudith Leyster, an artist of the Dutch golden age, was thought to be about 21 when she painted her self-portrait in 1630. In the picture she presented to the world, Leyster exudes cheerful confidence. Clad in shimmering silks and a stiffly starched lace collar, she leans back in her chair, palette and brushes in hand, a painting by her side.This work, completed in the year she was admitted to a painters’ guild in Haarlem, proclaimed her arrival as an established artist. It was one of the first self-portraits by an artist in the Dutch republic, a device most male painters did not adopt until years later. Continue reading...