ANy famous women artists that you know of?

Question

Can you name a famous women artist please...and i need a coupl sites on that artist too....i have a paper to type and i have limited time for research...please help!!! i have 3 projects to do!

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cassatt

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/


Here is a WHOLE list

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/artpainting/Women_and_Painting_Female_Painters_Images_of_Women_in_Paintings.htm

Answer 2

Sofonisba Anguissola.
She was the best female artist in the Renaissance. There is at least 1 good book about her. She is famous for carving the heads of 60 saints on a cherry pit. That cherry pit is still in a museum.

Answer 3

Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keefe, Grandma Moses,

Answer 4

I've always liked Mary Cassat...of course, I've always been a sucker for impressionism, but theres just something about her use of light...and she does children very well. The first link give some other women artist.

Answer 5

Laurie Whitehead

http://members.cox.net/streuli/inside/non_fiction/whitehead.htm

Sorry this was the only site I have found so far. Maybe you can find more. She does beautiful work and would be worth looking into.

Answer 6

Google Georgia O'Keefe...loads of info on her. Very interesting life.

Answer 7

http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/5719.asp
Thats a link that shows a few. Just do a search there are many. Easy to find.

Answer 8

Frida Kahlo is one of the most fascinating painters I know (male or female). Give her a look over.

Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. An active communist supporter, she was the wife of Mexican muralist and cubist painter Diego Rivera.

Kahlo was noted for her unconventional appearance, declining to remove her facial hair (she had a small moustache and unibrow which she exaggerated in self portraits) and donning flamboyantly-styled clothing inspired by traditional Mexican dress.

Childhood and family
Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón in her parents' home, known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House) in Coyoacán, which at the time was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father, Guillermo Kahlo (1872-1941), was born under the name Carl Wilhelm Kahlo in Pforzheim, Germany. Guillermo's father, the jeweler and goldsmith Jakob Heinrich Kahlo, and his mother, Henriette née Kaufmann, were both born in Germany.[1]. Wilhelm Kahlo sailed to Mexico in 1891 at the age of 19 and, upon his arrival, changed his German forename Wilhelm to its Spanish equivalent, Guillermo.

Kahlo's mother, Matilde Calderón y Gonzalez, was a devout Catholic of primarily indigenous descent mixed with Spanish. Matilde frowned upon the wild games Frida and her younger sister Cristina played. Frida's parents were married shortly after the death of Guillermo's first wife during her second childbirth. Their marriage was largely unhappy. Guillermo and Matilde gave birth to four children (where Frida was the third of their four girls) and having two older half sisters, Frida grew up in a world surrounded by females. Throughout most of her life, Kahlo was close to her father.

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 when Kahlo was three years old. In her writings, she recalled that her mother would usher her and her sisters inside as gunfire echoed in the streets of her hometown. Men would occasionally leap over the walls into her backyard and her mother would sometimes prepare a meal for the hungry revolutionaries. Later, Kahlo would claim that she was born in 1910 so people would directly associate her with the revolution.

Kahlo contracted polio at age six, which left her right leg looking thinner sometimes than the other (a deformity Kahlo hid by wearing long skirts). As a girl, she participated in boxing and other sports. In 1922, Kahlo was enrolled in the Preparatoria, one of Mexico's premier schools, where she was one of only 35 girls. Kahlo joined a gang at the school and fell in love with the leader, Alejandro Gomez Arias. During this period, Kahlo also witnessed violent armed struggles in the streets of Mexico City as the Mexican Revolution.

In September of 1926, Kahlo was riding in a bus when the vehicle collided with a trolley car. She suffered serious injuries in the accident, including a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. An iron handrail impaled her abdomen, piercing her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive ability. Though she recovered from her injuries and eventually regained her ability to walk, she was plagued by relapses of extreme pain for the remainder of her life. The pain was intense and often left her confined to a hospital or bedridden for months at a time. She would undergo as many as 35 operations in her life as a result of the accident, mainly on her back and her right leg and foot.

Career as a Painter
After the accident, Kahlo turned her attention away from the study of medicine to begin a full-time painting career. The accident left her in a great deal of pain while she recovered in a full body cast; she painted to occupy her time during her temporary state of immobiliztion. Drawing on personal experiences including her troubled marriage, her painful miscarriages, and her numerous operations, Kahlo's works are often characterized by their stark portrayals of pain. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits, which frequently incorporate symbolic portrayals of her physical and psychological wounds. Kahlo was deeply influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, which is apparent in her paintings' bright colors and dramatic symbolism. Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work as well; she combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition--which were often bloody and violent--with surrealist renderings. While her paintings are not overtly Christian--she was afterall an avowed communist--they certainly contain elements of the macabre Mexican Christian style of religious paintings.

Stormy Marriage
As a young artist, Kahlo approached the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, whom she had previously admired, and asked him for his advice on pursuing art as a career. He immediately recognized her talent and her unique expression of a new and uniquely Mexican aesthetic. He encouraged her development as an artist, and began an intimate relationship with Frida. They were married in 1929, to the disapproval of Frida's mother. They were often referred to as "The Elephant and the Dove" due to their difference in size (Kahlo's mother, who did not like Rivera, came up with this description of them).

Their marriage was often tumultuous. Both Kahlo and Rivera had notoriously fiery temperaments and both had numerous extramarital affairs. The openly bisexual Kahlo had affairs with both men and women; Rivera knew of and tolerated her relationships with women, but her relationships with men made him jealous. For her part, Kahlo was outraged when she learned that Rivera had had an affair with her younger sister, Cristina. The couple eventually divorced, but remarried in 1940; their second marriage was as turbulent as the first.

Late Years
Active communist sympathizers, Kahlo and Rivera befriended Leon Trotsky as he sought political sanctuary from Joseph Stalin´s regime in the the Soviet Union. Initially, Trotsky lived with Rivera and then at Kahlo's home, where he and Kahlo allegedly had an affair. Trotsky and his wife then moved to another house in Coyoacán where he was later assassinated. Sometime after Trotsky's death, Kahlo denounced her former friend and praised the Soviet Union under Stalin. She spoke favorably of Mao Zedong, calling China "the new socialist hope" [citation needed].

Kahlo died on July 13, 1954, supposedly of a pulmonary embolism. She had been ill throughout the previous year and had a leg amputated owing to gangrene. However, an autopsy was never performed. A few days before her death she had written in her diary: "I hope the exit is joyful; and I hope never to return."

The pre-Columbian urn holding her ashes is on display in her former home La Casa Azul (The Blue House) in Coyoacán, today a museum housing a number of her works of art.

(from Wikipedia)
A great site:
http://www.fridakahlo.it/
A decent site:
http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/classes/social_science/Latin_America/Frida%20Kahlo/Frida_Kahlo.html