Get to know the Women Artists

Get to know the Women Artists

Georgia O'Keeffe

American Artists

"Mother of American Modernism"

Georgia O'Keeffe

• Most known for paintings of large, close up flowers

• Also painted landscapes and sky scrapers

• She has over 2,000 paintings, and about 200 are of flowers

Georgia O'Keeffe

• She decided to be an artist when she was 10 years old

• She was inspired by the colours and shapes of nature

• She quit painting 3 times, but always came back

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Georgia O'Keeffe

"Never give up what you love"

Frida Khalo

Mexican Artist

"Mexicanidad"

Frida Khalo

• She didn't always want to be an artist

• She had Polio when she was 6

• She was in a terrible car accident when she was 18

• Because of the accident and many operations, she lived with chronic pain

Frida Khalo

• She began painting in the hospital

• Many of her paintings are influenced by her injuries and disabilities

• She was politically active and fought for women's rights

Frida Khalo

"The Queen of Self-Portraits"

Hilma Klint

Swedish Artist

Abstract and Spiritual Art

Hilma Klint

• She started making abstract art in 1906

• She was one of the first women to study at an art University

• Before she died, she asked for her paintings to be kept secret for 20 years

Hilma Klint

• She was inspired by the supernatural and spiritual

• She was part of a spiritual women's group called "The Five"

• She painted more than 1,300 paintings, in one year painting more than 111 works

Hilma Klint

"Pioneer of Abstract Art"

Remedios Varo

Spanish artist

Surrealist

Remedios Varo

• When she was 15 she went to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid

• She moved to Paris in the Spanish Civil War and later to Mexico during World War I

Remedios Varo

• She was influenced by many artists like Francisco Goya, El Greco, Picasso, and André Breton

• She was also influenced by surrealism, allegory, religion and nature

• Her art often challenged ideas in patriarchy

Remedios Varo

"Surrealism is a way of communicating the incommunicable"

Yayoi Kusama

Japanese contemporary artist

"The Princess of Polka-Dots"

Yayoi Kusama

• Most of her artwork are installations and sculpture

• But she is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction...

• The dots in her work are inspired my hallucinations she began having as a child

Yayoi Kusama

• She studied traditional Japanese art, but was more interested in European and American avante-garde

• She climbed the Brooklyn Bridge clad in a dotted leotard in protest of war and capitalism

• No one art movement defines her style

Yayoi Kusama

"I'm just another dot in the world"