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\u00a9 Toyin Ojih Odutola<\/p>\n \u00a9 Toyin Ojih Odutola<\/p>\n
Im Jahr 1971 verfasste Linda Nochlin ihren bahnbrechenden Aufsatz \u201cWarum gab es bisher keine gro\u00dfen K\u00fcnstlerinnen?<\/a>\u201d. In diesem wegweisenden Werk der feministischen Kunstgeschichte skizziert Nochlin die institutionellen Gr\u00fcnde f\u00fcr die Ausgrenzung von Frauen aus dem Kunstkanon und stellt diese einem angeblichen Mangel an Talent seitens der Frauen entgegen. Der Aufsatz ist eine wichtige Inspirationsquelle f\u00fcr die Londonerin Katy Hessel, die ihren Instagram-Account @thegreatwomenartists<\/a> in its honour. Hessel hopes to carry on Nochlin\u2019s great work by showcasing female-identifying artists..<\/span> https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bgd5mytBYIy\/?taken-by=thegreatwomenartists https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BgO4D7LBqI7\/?taken-by=thegreatwomenartists https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZoqkiBnbV0\/?taken-by=thegreatwomenartists https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BcKMPUTHqDB\/?taken-by=thegreatwomenartists https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYTfYKJns3A\/?taken-by=thegreatwomenartists @thegreatwomenartists shines a light on art’s brightest female talents, past and present.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[10277,4717,10475,10476,3068,10477,10478,10479,10480,4723,10481,10482,3623],"class_list":["post-64004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-followfriday","tag-alice-neel","tag-antonia-showering","tag-feminist-art-history","tag-instagram","tag-katy-hessel","tag-kaye-donachie","tag-linda-nochlin","tag-lubaina-himid","tag-njideka-akunyili-crosby","tag-the-great-women-artists","tag-toyin-ojih-odutola","tag-turner-prize"],"acf":{"legacy":false,"main_category":139,"exclude_from_ads":[],"hero_title":"","subtitle":"@thegreatwomenartists shines a light on art's brightest female talents. Here, curator Katy Hessel shares her favourite women portraitists working today.","hero":{"video":false,"image":false,"header_color":"black","overlay_color":"","overlay_text_color":"black"},"teasers":{"video":false,"image":false,"width":"4","proportion":"default"},"facebook_image":false,"related_articles":"","next_article":"","content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":72808,"id":72808,"title":"great_women_artists","filename":"great_women_artists-1.jpg","filesize":623557,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-great-women-artists\/great_women_artists\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"great_women_artists","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":64004,"date":"2018-12-12 15:00:55","modified":"2018-12-12 15:00:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1045,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":89,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1045,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1045,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1045,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1045,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1045,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/great_women_artists-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1045}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Toyin Ojih Odutola"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" In 1971 Linda Nochlin wrote her pioneering essay \u201cWhy have there been no great women artists<\/a>\u201d. In this landmark work of feminist art history, Nochlin outlines the institutional reasons for women\u2019s omission from the art canon as opposed to an innate lack of talent on women\u2019s part. The essay is a major source of inspiration for Londoner Katy Hessel, who named her Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists<\/a> in its honour. Hessel hopes to carry on Nochlin\u2019s great work by showcasing female-identifying artists.<\/span><\/p>\n Hessel started @thegreatwomenartists in October 2015 after studying the work of American portrait painter, Alice Neel. \u201c<\/span>She was a woman working in a male dominated industry and it shocked me at how many women had been overlooked in history,\u201d she explains. Seizing the democratising opportunities offered by social media, Hessel took matters into her own hands and made what she describes to be \u201ca platform to celebrate female artists, who I think deserve recognition\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ba3XDN5nJ-_\/?hl=en&taken-by=thegreatwomenartists","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" The result is an Instagram account that is as much educational as it is enthusiastic: each image or gallery of images is accompanied with an informative description flecked with good-humoured emojis. Hessel\u2019s posts exude an infectious passion for her subject; a browse through her feed will make you wish you knew even more about the outstanding artists that she presents. This is where you will discover the brightly-coloured works of little known pop artist Evelyne Axell<\/a>, or the beautiful paintings of Oei Katsushika<\/a>, the daughter of Hokusai, or a celebration of contemporary painter, Caroline Walker<\/a>. Women artists or not, this is just great art, period.<\/span><\/p>\n @thegreatwomenartists spotlights the significance of representation \u2013 not just of women, but of different races, cultures and nationalities too \u2013 which is emphasised by the prevalence of portraiture on Hessel’s account. <\/span>\u201cI think portraiture is important for anyone, but especially for those who have been underrepresented. Historically, it was white, wealthy males who were immortalised into portraits, which cuts out a huge demographic of society\u201d, she explains. \u201cPortraiture gives someone something to relate to, so I think it\u2019s important that every age, race, wealth status and gender is recorded through portraiture\u201d. Given the important relationship between portraiture and representation, we asked Hessel to select her favourite women artists working in portraiture today.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" “Recent Turner Prize-winner Lubaina Himid\u2019s luminously coloured and richly textured portrayals of people do not just look at intimate and tender relationships between the characters, but also question the wider historical role of portraiture in her work.”<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" “Scottish-born Kaye Donachie reimagines deceased radical female writers and activists in her latest body of work, which she portrays with sensual licks of white, pink and blue paint to create a ghostly effect.”<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" “Slade MFA-student Antonia Showering paints portraits based on memories and the memory of relationships. With her contrasting palette of fiery and gentle colours, she inverts the pigments we see in real life as if to capture the fraught depiction of dreams.”<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" “Toyin Ojih Odutola paints beautifully tender and intricately technical portraits that chronicle Nigerian aristocratic families, simultaneously questioning the lack of black wealth in the history of America and imagining a world without any colonialist meddling.”<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" “Nigerian-born Njideka Akunyili Crosby\u2019s collage-based portraits merge her postcolonial and Afropolitan childhood in Nigeria with her experience of living her adulthood in Los Angeles, through the layering of old photographs in new interiors.”<\/span><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\n
\nHessel gr\u00fcndete @thegreatwomenartists im Oktober 2015, nachdem sie sich mit dem Werk der amerikanischen Portr\u00e4tmalerin Alice Neel besch\u00e4ftigt hatte. \u201c<\/span>\u201dSie war eine Frau, die in einer von M\u00e4nnern dominierten Branche arbeitete, und es hat mich schockiert, wie viele Frauen in der Geschichte \u00fcbersehen wurden\u201c, erkl\u00e4rt sie. Hessel nutzte die demokratisierenden M\u00f6glichkeiten der sozialen Medien, nahm die Sache selbst in die Hand und schuf, wie sie es beschreibt, \u201deine Plattform, um K\u00fcnstlerinnen zu w\u00fcrdigen, die meiner Meinung nach Anerkennung verdienen\u201c.<\/span>
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\nDas Ergebnis ist ein Instagram-Account, der ebenso lehrreich wie begeisternd ist: Jedes Bild oder jede Bildergalerie wird von einer informativen Beschreibung begleitet, die mit humorvollen Emojis gespickt ist. Hessels Beitr\u00e4ge strahlen eine ansteckende Leidenschaft f\u00fcr ihr Thema aus; wenn man durch ihren Feed bl\u00e4ttert, w\u00fcnscht man sich, noch mehr \u00fcber die herausragenden K\u00fcnstler zu erfahren, die sie vorstellt. Hier entdeckt man die farbenfrohen Werke eines wenig bekannten Pop-Art-K\u00fcnstlers Evelyne Axell<\/a>, oder die wundersch\u00f6nen Gem\u00e4lde von Oei Katsushika<\/a>, die Tochter von Hokusai, oder eine Hommage an einen zeitgen\u00f6ssischen Maler, Caroline Walker<\/a>. Ob von K\u00fcnstlerinnen oder nicht \u2013 das ist einfach gro\u00dfartige Kunst, Punkt.<\/span>
\n@thegreatwomenartists r\u00fcckt die Bedeutung der Darstellung in den Vordergrund \u2013 nicht nur von Frauen, sondern auch von Menschen unterschiedlicher ethnischer Herkunft, Kulturen und Nationalit\u00e4ten \u2013, was durch den hohen Anteil an Portr\u00e4ts auf Hessels Account noch unterstrichen wird. <\/span>\u201cIch glaube, Portr\u00e4tmalerei ist f\u00fcr jeden wichtig, aber besonders f\u00fcr diejenigen, die bisher unterrepr\u00e4sentiert waren. Historisch gesehen waren es wei\u00dfe, wohlhabende M\u00e4nner, die in Portr\u00e4ts verewigt wurden, wodurch ein gro\u00dfer Teil der Gesellschaft ausgeklammert wurde\u201d, erkl\u00e4rt sie. \u201cPortr\u00e4tmalerei gibt Menschen etwas, mit dem sie sich identifizieren k\u00f6nnen. Deshalb halte ich es f\u00fcr wichtig, dass jedes Alter, jede ethnische Zugeh\u00f6rigkeit, jeder Verm\u00f6gensstatus und jedes Geschlecht durch Portr\u00e4ts festgehalten wird.\u201d Angesichts der wichtigen Verbindung zwischen Portr\u00e4tmalerei und Repr\u00e4sentation haben wir Hessel gebeten, ihre Lieblingsk\u00fcnstlerinnen auszuw\u00e4hlen, die sich heute mit Portr\u00e4tmalerei besch\u00e4ftigen.<\/span><\/p>\n1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lubaina Himid<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n\u201cDie farbenpr\u00e4chtigen und strukturreichen Portr\u00e4ts der Menschen von Lubaina Himid, der j\u00fcngsten Turner-Preistr\u00e4gerin, beleuchten nicht nur die intimen und z\u00e4rtlichen Beziehungen zwischen den Figuren, sondern hinterfragen in ihren Werken auch die \u00fcbergeordnete historische Rolle der Portr\u00e4tmalerei.\u201d<\/p>\n2. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kaye Donachie<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n\u201cDie in Schottland geborene Kaye Donachie l\u00e4sst in ihrem neuesten Werk verstorbene radikale Schriftstellerinnen und Aktivistinnen wiederaufleben, die sie mit sinnlichen Pinselstrichen aus wei\u00dfer, rosa und blauer Farbe darstellt, um einen geisterhaften Effekt zu erzielen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n3. Antonia Showering<\/h3>\n
\n\u201cAntonia Showering, MFA-Studentin an der Slade, malt Portr\u00e4ts, die auf Erinnerungen und der Erinnerung an Beziehungen basieren. Mit ihrer kontrastreichen Farbpalette aus feurigen und sanften T\u00f6nen kehrt sie die Pigmente, die wir im wirklichen Leben sehen, um, als wolle sie die spannungsgeladene Darstellung von Tr\u00e4umen einfangen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n4. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Toyin Ojih Odutola<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n\u201cToyin Ojih Odutola malt wundersch\u00f6ne, zarte und technisch \u00e4u\u00dferst anspruchsvolle Portr\u00e4ts, die nigerianische Adelsfamilien dokumentieren und gleichzeitig den Mangel an schwarzem Reichtum in der Geschichte Amerikas hinterfragen sowie eine Welt ohne jegliche kolonialistische Einmischung entwerfen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n5. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Njideka Akunyili Crosby<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n\u201cDie Collagen-Portr\u00e4ts der in Nigeria geborenen Njideka Akunyili Crosby verbinden ihre postkoloniale und afropolitische Kindheit in Nigeria mit ihren Erfahrungen aus ihrem Erwachsenenleben in Los Angeles, indem sie alte Fotografien in neuen Interieurs \u00fcbereinanderlegt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lubaina Himid<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bgd5mytBYIy\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
Kaye Donachie<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BgO4D7LBqI7\/?taken-by=thegreatwomenartists","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
Antonia Showering<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZoqkiBnbV0\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
Toyin Ojih Odutola<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BcKMPUTHqDB\/?taken-by=thegreatwomenartists","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
Njideka Akunyili Crosby<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYTfYKJns3A\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"