Art Tours

Women's Modernist and Eco Art

Frida Kahlo, "Broken Column" (1944) [left] and "The Love Embrace of
the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Me, and Senor Xolotl" (1949) [right].

Frida Kahlo, "Roots" (1943)

Kahlo biography/images.
Good collection of paintings (1) and paintings (2), and her self-portraits (1), self-portraits (2), and self-portraits (3) (click on the "empty" boxes). NOTE: Some of the thumbnail links are out of order, but try the one above or below because these are some of the clearer images on the web.
Frida Kahlo: Contemporary Thoughts, Disturbing Art--excellent site with essays. Saint Frida--review of her diaries.

The Sojourner Truth placesetting from
Judi Chicago's The Dinner Party (1979)

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago--brief introduction to and image of this famous art display, exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum. See also images of the individual place settings --from the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
Judy Chicago--biography. Detailed information here about the Through the Flower Project: The Dinner Party --many links.
Sexual Politics Show, Part I and Part II--two-part essay on viewing Chicago's art show.

Nora Noranjo-Morse, "Mud Woman with Pot" (1991)

Naranjo-Morse biography--scroll down to "Writing Available Online" and read these poems: Childlike Enthusiasm; Gia's Song; The Living Exhibit under the Museum's Portal; Money Beasts; Mud Woman's First Encounter . . .; There is Nothing like an Idea; Towa; Tradition & Change; When Mudwoman Begins. Read her views on her medium in Preface to MudWoman (note the poem Clay Mother in the Preface). View this sculpture--Khwee-seng (Woman-Man).
Nora Noranjo-Morse--view these sculptures: Pearlene, Four Figures, and Mudwoman. Also note the Mudwoman poem near the bottom of the page--When the Clay Calls. Here is a related essay on Native American pottery/women's art and another sculpture here by Naranjo-Morse Sometimes She Just Sits.
What some reviewers have said about her sculptures/poems. Native American Art at the End of the Millennium --Eaton's discussion with Nora and other artists. Nora Naranjo-Morse's "Mud Woman" Poems and Sculptures--excerpt from scholarly study.

Faith Ringgold, "Sunflower Quilt" (1991) [left] and Harriet Powers, "Bible Quilt" (1886) [right].

Ringgold's Home Page--biography and many links. Another biography--covers her artwork also. More information on The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles and here. See also Tar Beach (Part I from the Woman on a Bridge series) and Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre .

19th Century Slave Quilts: Harriet Powers. More biographical information and discussion of her artwork. See Harriet Powers' Pictorial Quilts--large image and commentary by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. More links to quilts made by slaves.
Representation in Art and Film: Identity and Stereotype--good lesson plan on reversing racial stereotypes in the art of Ringgold and Saar (see below).

Betye Saar, "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima" (1972)

Betye Saar--biography. See Women in Art: Betye Saar. Commentary and images here. See also Commentary/Saar images here.
Representation in Art and Film: Identity and Stereotype--good lesson plan on reversing racial stereotypes in the art Saar and Ringgold (see above).

Barbara Kruger, "Your Body Is a Battleground" (1989)

Kruger biography with image (You Are Not Yourself). See also Living in the Eighties--good description of retrospective exhibit.
See also Barbara--commentary, images, and brief biography (Kruger's exhibit at the Whitney Museum). The History of "Your Body is a Battleground". Here is her critique of patriarchy/abuse of power: Kruger images/commentary. Read about her Barbara Kruger: Slogans that shake society.
Male and Female Ways of Viewing--excerpts from Berger, Foucault, Mulvey, etc.; Mainlining Postmodernism--scholarly article on Kruger and others.

It's All about the Apple, or Is It? (Origins)--art/essay about goddess art by contemporary eco-artists Nancy Macko, Barbara Bruch, Susan King, and Debra Uhls
It's All about the Apple, or Is It? (Native Visions)--art/essay about nature/spirituality by contemporary Southwestern women artists.
It's All About the Apple, or Is It? (Activist Practice)--art/essay about eco-activist artists.
Nature, Culture, Public Space--art/essay about public space art by twelve contemporary eco-artists.
Betty LaDuke, Artistic Journey from Oregon to Timbuctoo (click on the four sections: Identity; Community, Spirituality; Locality)--four-part autobiographical essay on the development of woman eco-artist; many images included.

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Last updated: 2-27-17