Okay I've Done A Lot Of Research To Find Old Mcr Posters To Print And Hang On My Wall And Since I Spent

"Prior to the 1500s there were no female artists."

Hahahahahahhaha.

Yeah, no, you want to go? LET’S GO.

Bourgot Le Noir • Nun Claricia • Diemoth (also called Diemud/Diemudis) • Agnes II Abbess of Quedlinburg • Anastasia • Claricia • Herrad of Landsberg • Ende • Guda • Abbess Hitda of Meschede • Hildegard of Bingen • Helena of Egypt, daughter of Timon of Egypt • Aristarete • Timarete • Alcisthene • Eirene • Anaxandra • Lala de Cizique • Iaia of Cyzicus • Frögärd Ulvsdotter i Ösby • Maria Ormani • Catherine of Bologna • the daughter of Butades (Kora/Callirhoe) • Lala • Sabrina von Steinbach • Kallo • Cirene, daughter of Kratinos • Calypso • Olympias • Amalasuntha • Laodicia • Herlindis of Maaseik • Relindis of Maaseik • Gisela of Kerzenbroeck • Zaynab al-Maqdisiyya • Fatimah Bint al'Aqra’ • unidentified prehistoric female artists, “Spotted Horses” mural • Onorata Rodiani • Mechthild of Hackeborn 

Also consider that there are a huge number of names missing - women did not always sign or receive credit for their work; earlier art may be pre- written language, may have been lost or destroyed, or may no longer be attributed by name.  Drawings of artists in ancient Greece in vase-making workshops, for instance, show both men and women painting designs.

The nature of white male academia and museum culture has also affected what we preserve and label, and even what we consider ‘valuable’ art, prioritizing the public (large murals and paintings) that Western women were socially not accepted to create over the private such as embroideries that were devalued and demoted to being ‘craft’ because of their associations with women.  Apologies for the primarily white and Western focus in this list, as biases in art historical documentation make it very difficult to properly identify by name pre-1500s female artists of color.

Here, have some essays:

Where Are Women in the History of Art?

Where Are All the Famous Women Artists?

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

The Feminist Critique of Art History

Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence

Examining the Exclusion of Women From Art Historical Documentation

Brushed Off: Women Artists and Their Fight for Recognition

Old Masters: Overlooked Woman Artists

Old Boys Club: What’s a Female Artist to Do?

The Medieval Feminist Art History Project

The Lack of Progress For Women in the Art World

A Woman’s Touch: Prehistoric Cave Paintings Were Made by Women as Well as Men, Scientists, Discover

procreate drawins

video essays i love and think about a lot (mainly in relation to pop culture):

aaliyah, britney & the apathy of lifetime “biopics”

baby phat enterprise:  how kimora lee simmons pioneered 2000’s fashion

whiplash vs. black swan — the anatomy of the obsessed artist

born sexy yesterday

parasite — the power of symbols

hilary duff, lizzie mcguire, and the teen idol pigonhole

why this font is everywhere

it’s time to talk about the r@cism in dan schneider’s shows

a legally blonde fashion analysis

ghost singing: jennifer lopez’s stolen vocals and songs

the late capitalism of kpop

jennifer’s body and the horror of bad marketing

let’s get sad: a last of us video essay

video vixens got paid like rappers

how midsommar brainwashes you

beyonce’s voice is changing (part one, part two, part three)

explained: smoking and the voice

here’s what we missed on glee

how one netflix movie broke the entire internet

naughty dog’s game design is outdated

jeffree star faked everything about… well, everything

how we failed megan fox

mariah carey’s voice

token black girl: how tyra banks vs. naomi campbell was orchestrated by the industry

colorism in your favorite black sitcoms

that 80s show and the limits of nostalgia

‘us’ and the american dream: what it means

unraveling the madness of kanye west

life is strange: the worst best friend

hmmm

Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi resting on the set of Lew Landers’s 1935 film The Raven.

Forest God part 1 by Oleg Vdovenko

Proposed leitners

- warrior cats book that when you open it you are instantly mailed by 30 feral cats (one is very orange)

- the very hungry caterpillar (corruption)

- a book that looks like a dictionary but when you open it it’s completely blank except for one page in the middle that says “bitch”

- toaster manual that burns you alive as you read it

- magic treehouse book just filled with the phrase “jack adjusted his glasses”

- flip book where a shadowy figure gets slowly closer until you’re done and then you turn around and he’s behind you

- how to harvest bones for dummies

- 1984 except you just get really angry over George Orwell’s misogyny (actually not a Leitner just normal 1984)

- alternatively 1984 but you open it and the text is just from A brave new world and you’re filled with the all encompassing urge to stir and nothing else until you drop dead

- Photo album of Jonah Magnus (warning: very ugly)

- Les Mis Manga

- a book you open that has another smaller book inside it so you open that book and it has a smaller book inside it so you open that book and it has another smaller book inside it so you open that book and it has another sm

- book that every time you dog ear it… it dog ears YOU

- book that sucks you into it’s world but it’s not a fun adventure it’s some nonfiction about the Black Plague and you’re starting to feel very ill

- Dr. Seuss book Oh The Places You’ll Go except if you’re giving it to someone for graduation or another big change in their life it locks itself shut and begins to scream

- Garfield comic compilation but the pages? Made of Lasagna.

- pride and prejudice but without the pride and prejudice

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