Women Artists

Susie Barstow installation view Women Artists

Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle/Contemporary Practices

Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle/Contemporary Practices is a two-part exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historic...

Alexandra Kiely 3 July 2023

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8 Remarkable Female Architects Across Time

Readers of DailyArt Magazine know that society has made it difficult for women to become professional artists for much of western history. Well, if...

Alexandra Kiely 3 July 2023

South American Art

Djanira da Motta e Silva: Gentle Documentalist of Brazilian Life

Djanira da Motta e Silva (1914-1979) was born in a very humble family, in Avare, São Paulo state in Brazil. She started to paint in her twenties...

Alicja Gluszek 19 June 2023

Women Artists

Lygia Pape and Neo-Concretism: Art Is an Experience

Breaking with all the patterns of what had been art in Latin America up to then, Lygia Pape with Grupo Frente created a unique Brazilian artistic...

Dévra Taboada 19 June 2023

Women Artists

Violeta Parra, The First Latin American in the Louvre Palace

In April 1964 the Musée des Arts décoratifs in the north-western wing of the Louvre Palace hosted an extraordinary exhibition that went down in...

Magda Michalska 19 June 2023

Surrealism

Meet the Surrealist Rita Kernn-Larsen

When you hear the word Surrealism, you probably think Dalí, Magritte, Ernst… But can you think of any female artists? Today you’ll meet one of...

Magda Michalska 26 May 2023

Women Artists

Nives Kavuric-Kurtovic: Pushing the Limits of Surrealism

Nives Kavuric-Kurtovic was the first female Croatian Surrealist painter and one of the greatest artists of Croatian contemporary art. As a painter,...

Guest Author 26 May 2023

Women Artists

Valentine Schlegel: Sculptor of Organic Abstraction

Sculptor, ceramist, artist, and teacher. Valentine Schlegel (1925–2021) was a headstrong individual with fervent, creative independence who carved...

Marga Patterson 23 May 2023

Women Artists

Violet Oakley: The First American Woman with a Public Mural Commission

1906, Philadelphia, USA: a historic moment in art was unfolding in the Pennsylvania Capitol Building. A series of murals depicting The Founding of...

Wendy Gray 18 May 2023

Art Forms

Lace on the Wall – NeSpoon’s Street Art

NeSpoon is a street artist who combines ceramics, lace, and graffiti in her work. She travels the world and decorates old buildings or run-down...

Magda Michalska 8 May 2023

Dance

Kyra Nijinsky: Portrait of a Dancer

Kyra Nijinsky was a ballet dancer born in Vienna to a family of Polish and Hungarian origin with a Russian dance and cultural heritage. Being a...

Klaudia Zelazowska 29 April 2023

Suzanne de Court. Suzanne de Court, Oval Plaque with the Annunciation, c. 1600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA. Women Artists

Suzanne de Court’s Enamel Masterpieces

Suzanne de Court was a French artist who was active at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. She focused on the production of enamel pieces with...

Jimena Escoto 24 April 2023