Another fabulous Friday Afternoon Challenge: Art “Happens!”

[Tansy_Gold]

55. Oh, yes, I know her biography

My Whitney Chadwick's "Women, Art, and Society" is on the bookshelf to my left, and I have a copy of Frederika Jacobs "Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa" around here somewhere. I discovered it and used it as a resource for one of my "Women in Art" papers, and the professor then adopted it as a text for future classes.

I'm not so sure it was a "female gaze" so much as a "female experience" Gentileschi brought to her work. Instead of painting FOR a male gaze she painted FROM a woman's experience, and that's what made her really radical.

But don't get me started, because eventually I'll get into territory I really know nothing about and then you'll know me for the intellectual fraud that I am!!