WOMEN DEVALUATION IN THE HISTORY OF ART. Speech Presentation

WOMEN DEVALUATION IN THE HISTORY OF ART
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WOMEN DEVALUATION IN THE HISTORY OF ART
Introduction
Katy Deepwell asserts that there is much more that remains to be done in art institutions such as schools, museums, public galleries and practices review before any changes occur in women position in the field. Several investigations in art history depict that women as subjects and artists have been devalued in the history of art. The main attributing factors were the values as well as the social and cultural structures that existed in a certain period. Nevertheless, the year 1968 perhaps more than any other year will be remembered as the decade of radical change. Not only did the year witness, the occurrence of several events such as the political assassination of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, among others in the political front but it also saw a transformation in the art world. The events made the year a turning point as it saw numerous artists becoming political activists. Furthermore, the art from this era reveals the transformation accustomed to the political climate. The 1960’s saw the emergence of art history as well as feminist art, which has resulted in the appreciation of the woman not only as a subject but also as a creator and receptor of pictorial art.
Although the term gender refers to both sexes, gender issues as a concept is majorly driven by the emergence of the feminism in the twentieth-century and the women movement. The paper argues that gender is the social and cultural classification of femininity and masculinity and not the biological determination of the sexes. Therefore, gender representations in art should be the outcome of the cultural processes that defines sexual and social identity. Hence, all forms of art as well as literature are a means of expression and the media that reflects the cultural process. The artworks of Egon Schiele, Claude, Cahun, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Guerrilla Girls are a depiction of the various representation of the woman not only as a subject but also as a creator and receptor of pictorial art.
Woman Undervalued as a Subject of Art
As highlighted, the differences in gender mean the social roles that are accustomed to one on the basis of either being a male or female. Therefore, being man or woman represents be biological structure but the sociological statues is represented by the masculinity and femininity. Hence, culture determines the gender differences thus identifies the prevailing values in the socialization process. The social structure is influenced by the gender roles that are given to an individual according to their sex. In simple terms, culture determines who should care for the household and who should be the provider for the family. The gender differences arise from the different roles that men and women play in the society, which can be seen in the framing of the presen...