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Review: A Woman’s Eye, Her Art – Drusilla Modjeska (Penguin)
When I first studied art history in the late 1960s, all artists were men. It
seemed, back then, that the act of rendering an image in line and colour, or
visualising pure emotion, was confined to the gender that controlled society at
the time.
The one woman artist I remember from my undergraduate years was Paula
Modersohn-Becker, whose portrait of Rilke was reproduced in Waldemar George’s
Expressionism, translated from French. He wrote that her “naïve vision
concealed a skilful technique”. But she died young and none of the men who
wrote in English noticed her.
Modersohn-Becker’s determination to become an artist is one of the starting
points for Drusilla Modjeska’s
A Woman’s Eye, Her Art, her study of avant
garde women artists in the first part of the 20th century. Their art was
(sometimes) noticed when it was first made, but later they were mainly regarded
as being muses for famous men.
The other starting point is the author’s ongoing conversation with living
Australian artist, Julie Rrap, whose body of work has been influenced by
Modersohn-Becker – as well as other women artists whose lives Modjeska
discusses."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics