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Revolutionary Women Artists
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Cut Piece
Yoko Ono - Known for her performance art, this piece from 1964 involved audience participation to cut pieces of her clothing off, reflecting themes of materialism, gender, and class.
Untitled Film Stills
Cindy Sherman - She is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits that explore the role and representation of women in society.
Infinity Mirrored Room
Yayoi Kusama - A Japanese contemporary artist who is famous for her repetitive polka dot patterns and her large-scale installations that often involve immersive mirror rooms.
The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago - This artist pioneered feminist art in the 1970s, creating large-scale installations that celebrate women's achievements in history.
Expansion in Four Directions
Magdalena Abakanowicz - A Polish sculptor known for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium, producing works that defy easy categorization and often reflect on the human condition.
Black Iris
Georgia O'Keeffe - An American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, which were innovative for their abstract qualities.
Asylum
Adrian Piper - As a first generation Conceptual artist and analytical philosopher, she has vigorously challenged racism and sexism through her artworks since the 1990s.
Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face)
Barbara Kruger - An American conceptual artist and collagist known for her black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions.
Rebellious Silence
Shirin Neshat - An Iranian visual artist known for her work that addresses the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary Islamic societies.
Womanhouse
Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro - This installation and performance space created in 1972 was a pivotal feminist art installation that transformed a dilapidated Hollywood mansion with rooms decorated to reflect women's experiences.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Pablo Picasso - Although not a woman, the impact of this artwork influenced numerous female artists, including those involved in the feminist art movement of the 1970s.
Mountains and Sea
Helen Frankenthaler - She was an American abstract expressionist painter known for her pioneering work in the color field painting movement.
A Subtlety
Kara Walker - An American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson - Not a female artist, but his work in the earthworks movement influenced artists such as Agnes Denes and Nancy Holt.
Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright - Not a female artist but an influential architect whose design of the Guggenheim impacted artists such as Jenny Holzer and Danh Vo, among others.
The Cage Paintings
Eva Hesse - A German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastic. She had a significant impact on the postminimal art scene of the 1960s.
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
Frida Kahlo - A Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Her personal, often painful, paintings are deeply emblematic of her identity and culture.
Vertigo
Bridget Riley - A British painter and one of the foremost proponents of Op art, she is known for her works that provoke visual sensations of movement and color.
Witchen Kitchen
Louise Bourgeois - A French-American artist known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, she explored themes of family, sexuality, death, and the subconscious.
Meat Joy
Carolee Schneemann - An American visual experimental artist, known for her multidisciplinary work which includes performance art, which explores the body, sexuality and gender norms.
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