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- Olympia by Édouard Manets. 1863. Dimensions. 130 cm × 190 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris France. When Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” was first showcased in Paris it created quite a scandal.
- Whistlers Mother by James McNeill Whistlers. 1871. Dimensions. 144.3 cm × 162.4 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris France. In this depiction of Whistler’s mother, we can see a moment of tranquility and deep reflection.
- The Kiss by Gustav Klimts. 1907–1908. Dimensions. 180 cm × 180 cm. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria. In this masterpiece by Gustav Klimts, we encounter a symbol of love and sensuality.
- Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso. 1907. Dimensions. 243.9 cm × 233.7 cm. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA. This artwork challenges representations of the form, with its angular and distorted figures.
- Ana Segovia
- Andrea Bowers
- Anna Park
- Anya Kielar
- Arghavaan Khosravi
- Avery Singer
- Barbara Kruger
- Becky Suss
- Beverly Fishman
- Bharti Kher
Ana Segovia lives and works in Mexico City. She creates paintings from film stills, mostly from the Mexican cinema golden era that investigate the performative aspect of the gender as well as the construction of masculinity in massive audiovisual medias.
Andrea Bowers is an LA Based, American multi-media artist - she works in video, sculpture, etc. Key themes she explores in her works are around women's’ and workers’ rights to climate change and immigration (source).
Anna Park, young emerging artist that lives and works in Brooklyn. Fun fact: she was “discovered” by, KAWS, as he visited the school's open studio exhibition (she went to the New York Academy of Art). She's known for these very detailed, expressive, works created with charcoal.
Another American Artist who lives and works in New York. She's known for creating these painting/sculpture hybrid works. She's represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery.
Another artist of Rachel Uffner Gallery, is Arghavan Khosravi who's an Iranian artist who currently lives and works in New York. Her heritage influences her work a lot, she uses textiles from Iran, and reflects on women’s status in her native country and her own feelings of dislocation from it (she was a victim of trump's travel ban) and hasn't be...
Avery Singer is "American artist known for creating digitally assisted paintings created through 3D modeling software and computer-controlled airbrushing." (source) Her works were in the 2019 Venice Biennale, super impressive since she's only 34. She's represented by Hauser & Wirth.
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist. If you've seen the supreme logo - that was inspired by the work of Barbara Kruger. Most of her work consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text and it addresses cultural constru...
Becky Suss is an American artist who lives and works in Philladelphia. Her work explores ideas of intimacy, domesticity and memory. Her works are very flat with exaggerated proportions and she often paints interiors. According to Jack Shainman which is the gallery that represents her "She is fascinated by American culture’s dismissal and dependence...
Her most recent works are abstract sculptures and paintings that are derived from a focus on pill and medication addictions. Fishman has a really incredible resume and is head of the painting department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, she also got her MFA at Yale. (source)
Bharti Kherwas born in the UK and now lives and works in India. I like to think of Kher's work as cultural collages. She uses all kinds of materials in her sculptures, paintings, and installations.
- Frida Kahlo. 21st Century Mexican Female Painter. Frida Kahlo’s art not only made an impact on her native country of Mexico but the entire world. Her paintings gave us an in-depth look into her world, from her tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera to her inability to have children.
- Jenny Saville. Contemporary British Female Painter. Jenny Saville has been an internationally acclaimed oil painter for decades due to her powerful, large-scale paintings of the female body.
- Marlene Dumas. Contemporary South African Female Painter. This South African painter is one of the most influential artists of our time. Marlene Dumas‘ striking pieces provide a peek into her childhood and what it was like to grow up in the apartheid.
- Julie Mehretu. Contemporary Ethiopian Female Painter. Julie Mehretu is an Ethiopian artist whose large-scale abstract paintings have brought her global attention.
- Contemporary women artists. Realism is coming back! Lost to decades of abstract art, contemporary figurative painting is experiencing a rebirth in a variety of styles.
- Margo Selski. By using a safe and familiar composition, my goal is to lull the viewer into a false sense of comfort and familiarity, where they are drawn to images which, upon further viewing, become curious, uncomfortable and perhaps even dangerous.
- Anne-Marie Kornachuk. I want people to see a real figure, in a moment of intimacy, surrounded by the abstracted beauty of the fabric. Canadian artist Anne-Marie Kornachuk paints women in swirling gowns.
- Roos van der Vliet. What I want to happen between a viewer and my work is not really up to me. It is something personal between the two of them, it goes beyond me.
Oct 9, 2023 · John Singer Sargent, The Portrait of Madame X 1884. John Singer Sargent, The Portrait of Madame X, 1884. John Singer Sargent, an American born on January 12, 1856, was born in Florence. Sargent is considered to have created more than 2,000 watercolors as well as 900 oil paintings during his lifetime.
Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art. The Book Exhibitions Artists Images Videos Blog. Women Artists in the Online Collection. View: All / Also in the Book.
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Aug 18, 2021 · Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo (1503-1506) by Leonardo da Vinci; Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Regarded as one of the most famous paintings ever made of a female, da Vinci created the Mona Lisa in 1506. This portrait is of a woman named Lisa Gherardini, who was wed to a nobleman, Francesco del Giocondo.
