![]() ![]() She caused a media storm in 2018 when she removed John William Waterhouse’s 1896 painting “Hylas and the Nymphs” from the wall of the Manchester Art Gallery for a week in protest of the depiction of women’s bodies in art history. Sonia Boyce is a revolutionary face of contemporary British art. ![]() Sonia Boyce, She Ain’t Holding Them Up, She’s Holding On (Some English Rose), 1986 ( Tate Gallery) □ Where to see Faith Ringgold’s work: Now adapted into a children’s story, “Tar Beach” is part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim in New York. If meaningful activist art is one of your passions, Ringgold is one of the famous women artists you should add to your list! Among Ringgold’s other famous quilts are “Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima?” (1983), the Michael Jackson tribute quilt “Who’s Bad?” (1988), and her most famous “Tar Beach” (1988). Her “Dancing at the Louvre” quilt series from the ’90s shows black families enjoying European art. Ringgold is also a skilled expert in sewing with several narrative quilts on her artistic resume. Not only has she led protests to diversify art museums, she even went to jail in the 1970s for an exhibition featuring African-style masks of her own creation and painted political posters. She’s a feminist icon, empowering Black female artists over the years. Harlem-born Black artist and activist Faith Ringgold started out as a public school art teacher, where her paintings titled “American People” showed the civil rights movement from a female perspective. □ Where to see Tracey Emin’s work: Explore the dark territories and raw emotions distilled in the artworks of Tracey Emin, held in the Museum of Modern Artin New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Goetz Collection in Munich. She even named an art movement called ‘Stuckism’ after her ex, Billy Childish. “My Bed” starring delightfully un-sexy stained underpants, used condoms, empty liquor bottles, pregnancy tests, and food-splattered sheets sold for a whopping $3.77 million at Christie’s auction in 2014.Įmin’s use of materials serves as a platform to address important topics from sexism to unreported rape, promiscuity, and public harassment. Tracy Emin has stunned the world with a series of unusual, thought-provoking artworks based on her life. Explaining the “hard” decision to The Art Newspaper she said: “It just means that at the moment I am not alone… and it’s not going anywhere.” Rock on! This famous contemporary female artist is so brazen, she married a rock in 2016. There’s no keeping cancer survivor Tracey Emin down. ![]() S Parish / Tracey Emin’s message, Liverpool Cathedral ![]()
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