Final Study Guide Part 2

Women Artists in History

Final Study Guide Part 2

Slide Identification

• Miriam Schapiro (and Sherry Brody), Dollhouse (1972)
• Judy Chicago, Dinner Party (1979)
• Hannah Wilke, S.O.S. Starification Object Series (1974-1982)
• Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35 (1979)
• Sylvia Sleigh, The Turkish Bath (1973)
• Adrian Piper, Vanilla Nightmares #2 (1986)
• Adrian Piper, My Calling Card (1986)
• Maya Ying Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982)
• Louise Bourgeois, Arch of Hysteria (1993)
• Rachel Whiteread, House (1993)

Short Answer

1. Why was Margaret Harrison’s 1971 solo exhibition closed down by he police?
2. Why did Judy Cohen (later Gerowitz) change her last name to Chicago?
3. Why did some feminists react negatively to the ‘female imagery’ of Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro?
4. Briefly describe the Womanhouse project.
5. What is essentialism?
6. How does the focus of feminist artists shift from the 1970s into the 1980s?
7. Why was there opposition to Maya Lin receiving the commission for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

Research Paper Final Draft

The final draft of your research paper is due in two weeks (Tues 26 May)

This one MUST BE PRINTED and turned in during class.

Format:

- 12 pt font, double spaced

- the title of your paper should be the name of your artist (feel free to get more creative with the title but it must include her name)

- include header in top right corner with your last name and page number

- essay must be NO LESS than 6 complete pages

- include illustrations after your essay (these do not count towards your 6 pages), label them (figure 1), (figure 2), etc., refer to them in your paper that way when relevant

- include bibliography (this does not count towards your 6 pages), you must have at least 3 sources

Essay Feedback (Update)

For some reason, I've only been successful in sending a few of the essays with feedback. I will be returning the hardcopies to you on Tuesday, and as a result I am extending the Final Draft due date to Tues 26 May so you will all have the full two weeks to work from the notes.

Rough Draft Feedback

Hello everyone, I apologize for missing class today; there was a last minute emergency. I hope there was a note left for you all on the door, but if not, I'll let you know here that over the next day or so I will be emailing all of you that have turned in your rough drafts with my feedback. Get started on your final drafts right away, and try to implement the notes I've given you!

If you still have not turned in a rough draft, email me what you have ASAP!

Final Study Guide (Part 1)

Women Artists in History

Final Study Guide Part 1

Chapter 9-11

Slide Identification

• Gabriele Munter, Boating (1910), German Expressionism
• Venessa Bell, The Tub (1917), Post Impressionism
• Sonia Delaunay, Couverture (1911) Modernism, Orphism
• Hannah Hoch, DADA-Dance (1919-1921), Dada
• Suzanne Valadon, Grandmother and Young Girl Stepping into the Bath (c. 1908), Post-Impressionism
• Suzanne Valadon, The Blue Room (1923), Post-Impressionism
• Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace (1906), German Expressionism
• Camille Claudel, The Age of Maturity (c. 1902), Symbolism
• Romaine Brooks, Self-Portrait (1923), Symbolism
• Georgia O'Keeffe, Ram’s Head with Hollyhock (1935), Modernism
• Kathe Kollwitz, “Attack” The Weaver’s Revolt (1895-1897), Expressionism
• Kathe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child (1903), Expressionism
• Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column (1944), Surrealism, Symbolism
• Elizabeth Catlett, Homage to My Young Black Sisters (1969), Modernism
• Barbara Hepworth, Two Figures (1964), Modernism
• Lee Krasner, Noon (1947), Abstract Expressionism
• Lee Krasner, Cat Image (1957) Abstract Expressionism
• Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral (1957), Modernism
• Niki de Saint Phalle, Nana (c. 1965), Modernism
• Eva Hesse, Accession II (1967), Postminimalism
• Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972), Pop Art
• Alice Aycock, Maze (1972), Postminimalism

Short Answer

1. What is abstraction?
2. What was the purpose of the Omega Workshops?
3. What was the Reform Dress Movement?
4. What German folk tradition do the paintings of Gabriele Munter draw inspiration from?
5. Why  was it in Russia that the distinction between fine art and applied art was finally broken down successfully?
6. What is Productivism and why were women so readily accepted into the movement?
7. What was the relationship between fashion and Modernism in the early 20th century?
8. Briefly describe the ideology of Dada.
9. How did Suzanne Valadon become acquainted with the many avant garde artists of Paris? How did her background affect her growth and acceptance as an artist?
10. What sets the nude figures of Suzanne Valadon apart from the more traditional classical nude?
11. In general, why were women artists initially attracted to the Surrealist movement? Why did many of them eventually reject the movement?
12. In what way was femininity commonly characterized in the first half of the 20th century that helped exclude women from the production of culture?
13. Why were the works of Kathe Kollwitz largely overlooked by 20th century art historians?
14. What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and why was it important to women artists and Artists of Colour?
15. Briefly describe the difference between Minimalism and Postminimalism.

Test 2 Study Guide

Women Artists in History

Study Guide (Test 2)

Chapter 5-9

Slide Identification

Rococo

• Rosalba Carriera, Self-Portrait as Winter (1731)
• Elisabeth Vigée le Brun, Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787)

Reaction to Rococo (18th Century Naturalism)

• Elisabeth Vigée le Brun, Self Portrait (1790)
• Adelaide Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils (1785)
• Anne Vallayer-Coster, Allegory of the Visual Arts (1769)

Neoclassicism  

• Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Presenting Her Children As Her Treasures (c. 1758)
• Angelica Kauffmann, Self-Portrait Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting (1791)
• Harriet Hosmer, Zenobia in Chains (1859)
• Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free (1867)
• Edmonia Lewis, The Death of Cleopatra (1876)
• Sophia Hayden, Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)

Victorian England

• Anna Blunden, The Seamstress (1854)
• Emily Mary Osborn, Nameless and Friendless (1857)
• Alice Walker, Wounded Feelings (1861)
• Anna Lea Merritt, War (1883)
• Edith Hayllar, Feeding the Swans (1889)

American Folk Art

• Harriet Powers, Pictorial Quilt (c. 1888-1895)

Realism

• Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair (1855)
• Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), Calling the Roll After an Engagement, Crimea (1874)
• Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Abraham Lincoln (1871)
• Susan MacDowell Eakins, Portrait of Thomas Eakins (1889)
• Frances Benjamin Johnson, Self-Portrait (c. 1896)
• Alice Barber Stephens, The Woman in Business (1897)

Romanticism

• Elisabet Ney, Lady Macbeth (1905)

Impressionism

• Berthe Morisot, Mother and Sister of the Artist (1870)
• Berthe Morisot, Psyche (1876)
• Mary Cassatt, A Cup of Tea (c. 1880)
• Mary Cassatt, In the Loge (Woman in Black at the Opera) (1880)
• Mary Cassatt, Reading Le Figaro (1883)

Short Answer

1. Which genre of painting was the highest in the hierarchy of genres established in the 17th century?
2. Describe the Rococo style.
3. What artistic medium did Rosalba Carriera explore and help to popularize?
4. What major obstacle stood between women artists and history painting?
5. Angelica Kauffmann was instrumental in the popularization of which style in Britain?
6. Why did Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun leave France in 1789?
7. What is the Cult of True Womanhood?
8. What is one of the positive aspects of the separation of the sexes for women in the Victorian period?
9. Laura Herford was the first female student to attend the Royal Academy School in England. How did she gain admittance?
10. How did the Royal Academy School arrange for its first female students to study anatomy?
11. How did critics tend to characterize the works of Lady Butler?
12. Many American women artists in the 19th century (such as Harriet Hosmer and Lilly Martin Spencer) came from families that were involved in what kinds of social movements? Why?
13. How did Harriet Hosmer achieve financial success through sculpture?
14. How did Vinnie Ream Hoxie’s beauty and charm serve as both an advantage and a disadvantage in her career?
15. What was a major problem with the exhibition of the works of women artists in the Women’s Pavilion at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition?
16. What was the first stylistically radical art movement in which women were involved? Why did this style appeal to women artists?
17. What was the traditional division of labour between the sexes in the commercial production of painted pottery and textiles?
18. Describe William Morris’s beliefs regarding sexual division of labour. Describe the reality of the division of labour in the British Arts and Crafts Movement, which he championed.
19. Describe the characteristics of the New Woman.