How have women been depicted in modern art (1860-1960). How do these depictions reflect changing attitudes? Select a range of examples by both male and female artists to illustrate your answer.

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How have women been depicted in modern art (1860-1960). How do these depictions reflect changing attitudes? Select a range of examples by both male and female artists to illustrate your answer.

As I flicked through the heavy pages of the traditional and

authoritative book on art history in my search of women seen

through both male and female eyes and painted with the skills of a

man's and women's hand most of what I cold find was male artists,

and if there was a woman painter there was little or no information

about her and her work was sometimes shown in black and white

reproduction, so if I wanted more information I had to turn to books

that deal only with women's work, as it was a separate issue, or a

totally different branch that had to be separated from the Main body

of art history.

Women have been seen and depicted differently through time, as

the styles changed so have the attitudes, (but not radically) the

perspectives from which the world was looked at, also the way We

as viewers experience the works has developed, today we are aware

of different approaches, contexts and cultural biases. From 1860 to

1960, From impressionism and Manet, to Abstract Expressionism

and de Kooning the female is still nude, and her function is her

(most of the time) naked body. Through Modernism there is a

difference in a way a woman depicts her self and the way a man

depicts her.

During Impressionism we see women as pretty long dresses that

reflect the sun and are a good ground to play with colors. Her faces

are not clearly seen, they are blurred and in shadow, like in Claude...