Last semester I took a course on North American Indigenous art history, in which I wrote an essay on contemporary Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona. After doing research for the essay, I got a little obsessed with Inuit graphic arts. I was fascinated with the subject matter, the style, and the history behind it. In recent decades, Inuit graphic art has…
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The Great Women Portrait Artists
Despite the institutional and societal limitations women artists have faced, portrait art has long been regarded as a feminine preoccupation. Since ancient times, female artists have excelled in portraiture. While male portrait artists are more celebrated, women seem to excel in this over other genres of art. This post was born after I read two essays: Linda Nochlin’s Why Have There…
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Artist Highlight: Who was Hannah Höch?
My first encounter with Hannah Höch was through my first year introductory Art History class. From the start, I was hooked; whether it was her politically charged Dada artwork, her innovation in the style of photomontage, her feminist values, or her bisexuality, something about Höch resonated with me. Both an incredible and unique artist and someone with important political views,…
