WOMEN PORTRAYED IN ART

What is unfortunate is that the women portrayed in art are generally painted by men, a man’s view of the woman's experience. Men tend to see women always in relation to themselves, a kind of aura women give off that they then relate to. And unfortunately women have tended to succumb to this view and play into it.  A man's presence is dependant on the power he appears to have. It suggests what he is capable of doing to or for you. And it is this presence that defines men as men. A woman however gives off a sense of what can be done to or for her. Throughout western society women have been habituated to care how they appear to men.

And that is how men portray women in art, as someone relating to them. However a woman artist portrays her own experience of the world as a woman, regardless of the men around her...it is a true and real experience, whereas what the men paint when they paint women is often a clouded vision of their imagination… an objectification.

Women artists portray women as complicated human beings with many facets to their inner and outer life...where as men's depiction of women is generally uni-dimensional..

Statistics say that men artists are shown almost 90% more often than women artists still in museums and galleries, so therefore we can assume that the way women are seen in our society is still through the lenses of men and not how they really are…