ART TRIBUTE:Women Artists in the History of Contemporary Art

 

The role of women in art, as we all know it starts to get a complete and essential form from Abstract Expressionism and then, in the mid-50s, with three very dynamic female figures, Louise Bourgeois, the widow of Jackson Pollock as characteristically called Lee Krasner and the great minimalist painter Agnes Martin. Today is the triggering event to make a flashback to the most important women artists that marked with their personality and work the contemporary art.

By Efi Michalarou

If the above three women played a catalytic role in the history of contemporary art, on the role of women in a male-dominated field until then, Hannah Wilke is the great feminist of the ’70s, whose work and attitude (she died from cancer and photographed the whole process of the disease), she really emphasized what psychic and artistic vigor means. Followed by Bridget Riley (representing the Op-Art), the great Surrealist Meret Oppenheim and follow: Rebecca Horn and Marina Abramovic both connected with the Performing art, the second is naturalized as great performer in the history of art, but also their younger, Janine Antoni, a native of the Bahamas, who enters the field in the 80’s, then enter the artists from the regions of the world in the international art scene in the ’90 s, who changed the established status quo, the Iranian Shirin Neshat with touching art video- documents, the Palestinian Mona Hatoum with the astonish installations, the African American Kara Walker, who through her work (cutworks) projects all the history of the Afro Americans and the Japanese Mariko Mori, who with her video and photos, conveys the culture of the East to the West through the dream and futurism…