Who is your favourite artist of all time?

Question

Do you think that women are not fairly represented in art history?

Preferably a visual artist.

http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html

This is my favourite
http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/index.shtml

I also love Mary Cassat.

Answer 1

Interesting---before I looked at your subquestion--my answer was Andy Warhol.

And, then in seeing your second question--I have to answer 'yes.' I do think that women are not fairly represented in art history. But, then again--it is the bold, dirty, hermit-males that have made art history what it is today. Any woman that would make as large as a statement as...Andy Warhol, would have to be not only smart and brash---but be held to higher expectations because she is a 'woman.'

Answer 2

Van Gogh followed by Emily Carr.

Women are definitely under represented. I often wondered if women were painting at all during certain eras because there are very few male nudes, and of those most are done by men. Not that women need to paint nudes, but those of women seem to be abundant.

Off the top of my head I can think of lots of male artists and a handful of women.

Has history not listed female artists or wear they shunned?

Answer 3

Not represented as Artists, or in Art?

I would say they are represented fairly in art, depending who the artist was.
As artists, women's work didn't involve painting, so there weren't so many female artists. It would be interesting to see how Art History would have been different had there been more female artists 500 years ago. NOW, in present day, there are sooo many female artists. I was a fine arts major in college.

Favorite artists? Hmm...I like W.A. Bouguereau...Wayne Thiebaud....Gustav Klimt....Suzuki Harunobu....(to begin with)

Answer 4

Considering that "feminism" has barely reared it's little head in the past century, I would say yes. Women were barely being aknowledged in any area... and when you think about art - something that goes back to the "beginning of time"... there's a lot of artists who were women and never had the opportunity to show their work.

Answer 5

Edgar Degas.
I feel that the early impressionist did a fair rendition. Today is a much different story. I can't think of a single painting that has been done in the last 2 decades that the women look like anyone I know!

Answer 6

Charles Russell. The man had lived with the Blackfeet and painted them in their ordinary and warrior ways. He also cow-punched, which was another source of his authentic American West paintings.

Many of his priceless paintings can be viewed in the Amon Carter museum in Dallas, Texas.

Answer 7

Green Day

Answer 8

Ansel Adams, specifically his B&W work in Yosemite:

http://www.anseladams.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=9

And women, Annie Leibovitz:

http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/leibovitz/photos.html

Answer 9

definitely van Gogh. His use of color is amazing. As for women, I think they didn't get their due during their lives, but these days there is plenty recognition out there for them.

Answer 10

sophonisba anguissola is a favorite of mine. i learned a lot about her during my women in art history course back in college.....her style is amazing, and she uses the sfumato technique beautifully in a few of her paintings. i mean, even michelangelo admired her work...