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0 Dark Thirty
Agnès de la Roncière
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,707
What’s Kept Inside
Maisha De la Cruz
Painting - 123 x 214 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 84.3 x 0.4 inch
£7,903
La violoniste au chapeau
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,348
Rouge baiser
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£494
La Cage, béatitude ravageuse
Sandra Chevrier
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 2 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.8 inch
£16,023
Je ne travaille pas, je suis travaillée
Miss.Tic
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£7,144
Tchin tchin
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,977
Anxious portrait
Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,864
Stolen childhood
Marina Dobrovolskaya
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£4,493
Portrait of a girl with glasses
Eugene Gorbachenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,797
Medusa
Fatunmbi Anjolaoluwa Grace
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
£1,855
Desires 1
Esinulo Chiamaka Praise Chiamaka Praise
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
£2,774
Un moment à soi
Barbara Petit Lisy
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£5,025
La petite tasse de lait
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 55 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,388
Portrait #165
Edgar Manuel Marcos
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
£3,145
Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,067
I believe in pink
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
£539
La moitié de mon bonheur
Marta Grassi
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.9 inch
£1,258
Ouin ouin variante
Valentine Bouvet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£755
Femme qui (lèche) boit
Valentine Bouvet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,157
Femme qui (suce) mange
Valentine Bouvet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
£2,157
La couleur de l'âme
Natacha Birds
Painting - 116 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
£1,797
Eclat d'innocence
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
£674
Women by Women
For as long as art has existed, women have been the central subject. Depicted historically by male painters through the male gaze, women have been admired as objects of desire and of beauty. In past centuries, the artistic world was largely configured by a hypermasculine scene of male artists and art collectors. We have the great masters of the classicalist tradition, like Rembrandt, to thank for the mythically inspired, idealized trope of the female nude. Women in this context were seen but remained unheard.
With the emancipation of women at the turn of the 19th century, came a shift in this mentality in the world of art. Nowadays we see as many female artists as we see of their male peers. What once was a women's education, to take up embroidery, painting and other artistic pursuits are now no longer viewed as gender-biased activities. In the 21st century, contemporary female artists such as Tracey Emin, Diane Arbus, and Cindy Sherman have re-explored the female subject through the lens of the feminist movement. Artists such as Emin have reimagined the nude through a woman's own eye. The woman has therefore transcended from object behind the lens of the camera or artist's paintbrush to subject and authority of her own image.
These paintings of women by women vary in medium and subject matter but are uniquely feminine in their depiction owing to the fact that no two women are the same. Artsper invites you to explore the female gaze through a variety of portraits and scenes of everyday life with women as the main subjects. Go check out our selection of contemporary female artists such as Charlotte Abramow, Sofiya Akimova and Lorna Simpson at the front of this new artistic campaign: art of women by women for women!