Gender issues in art (Feminism)

Women in art has been a subject that has been present throughout most of the course of history, however, over these years, the object of the woman has changed in social, cultural and political meaning. Nowadays, modern-contemporary artists have been known to ‘attack’ the traditional values of women that more historical art has held – a meaning that depicted the woman as an object, rather than a being; a submissive figure, rather than a dominant one.

Two examples of artists that have represented and conveyed socio-gender issues through art are Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman, whom, both by using various forms of print media such as photography have challenged and questioned the dominant ‘male’ influences in art, society and on women in general. Both have incorporated elements of post-modernism such as appropriation in their works, but moreover, it is the rather witty, dark humour and satirical statements that have made their work so notorious and confronting.

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