Talk
More than Muses: A Feminist Guide to Art History - Week One: Where are the great women artists?
22 Mar 2019
The National Gallery
London, United Kingdom
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Detail from Artemisia Gentileschi, Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, about 1615–17
Talk
More than Muses: A Feminist Guide to Art History - Week Four: The Female Nude
22 May 2019
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£40/ £38 conc./ £35 Members & Patrons - Individual Weeks
£195/ £185 conc./ £170 Members & Patrons - The entire module (One)
£555/£525 conc./ £480 Members & Patrons - All three modules
Address
- Trafalgar Square
- London
England - WC2N 5DN
- United Kingdom
Event map
Women in the picture is Module two of our three-module course ‘More than muses: A feminist guide to art history’.
Find out whether the female nude can survive #MeToo; and how women leaders are redressing the balance when it comes to the representation of women artists.
About
Many male artists have felt the urge to paint the female nude! Belle Smith discusses some iconic representations of the female nude by male and female artists. She explores how contemporary female artists such as Jenny Saville and Cornelia Parker have challenged the ideal of the female nude, in paintings that are personal, brave, iconic, raw or erotic.
After the break, Christina Bradstreet discusses Degas’s representation of women in the context of 19th-century ideas of gender and race.
