A Woman's Touch: The National Museum of Women in the Arts

[AlvaroVonKunstler]

I didn't know there were very accomplished female artists since 16th century, that's amazing! I definitely have to study that.

[GreatMuseums]

@AlvaroVonKunstler It is well worth taking a look at, for sure. The National Museum of Women in the Arts currently has an exhibition called "R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Carita" which features prints created between 1963 and 1967. She created this art to communicate her vision of peace and love in the 1960s. It will be at the museum through July 15, 2012. Thanks for your comment!

[RETROGEMS]

This looks like a truly amazing institution. I must go there one day!

[Composerland]

excellent.

[GreatMuseums]

@Composerland Thanks for watching and for your comment!

[ClaudeHilde]

@scipio 1492

hey stupid, there is a 300 pages list in simone de beauvoirs "le deuxieme sexe", among others.

[scipio1492]

Women can produce art...but not great or original art. In the 20th cent. Georgia O'Keefe was definitely an innovator in art...but that's a very rare case.

[kimberlyg75]

@scipio1492 Someone has "mother" issues.

[scipio1492]

@kimberlyg75 Sweetheart it's about time to think logically (if you can that is...) and make a valid comment.

[scipio1492]

A question to all of you super-feminists? Why don't we hear about women mathematicians, composers, conductors? We hear now about women painters, because our pathetic art schools produce thousands of female graduates every year. Women today go to art schools because they think that it is an easy way to create "art". The evolution of the human species, as of all other primates, has assigned different roles for the male and the female. MEN-builders, creators. WOMEN=caretakers.

[guess622who]

Marie Curie? Rachel Carson? Rachel Zimmerman?

[scipio1492]

@guess622who Curie was a good scientist...she was also helped very much by her husband. The other too are not important in the history of science. See what I am talking about? You gave me only 3 names! I can give you thousands of names of male scientists.

[guess622who]

Stopping DDT and letting people with cerebral palsy communicate isn't important? hmmm ..I guess if you disqualify saving peoples lives and greatly improving the lives of disabled people then sure you can discount those two scientists. I named three off the top of my head.

[scipio1492]

@guess622who Those discoveries were a collective effort in which the two Rachels participated. But the organization of the effort, the tools and stats etc. were a result of collective work, in which the contributors were 90% male.

[scipio1492]

kimberlyg75 Make a valid comment sweetheart. Don't change the subject.

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@scipio1492 The thousands of female writers (historical and contemporary) photographers, painters, poets, designers, musicians, etc. reject your patently false declaration of solely men being "creators". Read a book by Edna Ferber and tell me she is not a creator. Look up the child genius and composer/concert pianist, Philippa Duke Schuyler [her biography "Compositions In Black And White]. Schuyler was in fact, compared to another child genius, Mozart. Men and women have the spark in them!

[RETROGEMS]

@scipio1492 By the way, how does the concept of "super feminism" enter into the discussion regarding acknowledging the contributions of women in the art world? I'm not a "super feminist". I just appreciate learning more of the female artists throughout history. I thought it was simply respecting the talents of fellow human beings..

[RETROGEMS]

Why do some men act almost as if they are "threatened" when accomplished women are spotlighted? This is a big universe. There's room for both genders to bring some beauty to the world.

[Ilkamy]

Thanks a lot for uploading the documentary of the great women's work!

It's a very educational report. Many stars... and thumb up!

[scipio1492]

Why do we need a Women's Museum? Do we have a Men's only Museum? Art is just that...art! Art, either great or mediocre, is gender-blind. Great female artists like Georgia O' Keefe, would be disgusted with the notion of dedicating a museum only to women artists! Political correctness gone beserk. (Where are the great female composers ...by the way? What's next ? That it was Mrs Bach that wrote the 6 Bradenburg concertos?

[Ilkamy]

@scipio1492

If gender doesn't matter, how come that the women artist weren't known before?

We have many "men only" institutions, it's just named different.

By the way, if you have watched the video you get an answer to your questions...

[scipio1492]

@Ilkamy The women who were painting, were usually daughters, sisters or lovers of male painters. Read the lives of Artemisia, Frida Cahlo, etc. In other words they were assisting male painters. In Artemisia's case she was helping her father, who was a well-known painter. In our day, feminists try to re-write history by telling us that she was a great painter on her own. Fashionable painters at that time had ig studios with many helpers, etc. Artemisia was just that.

[guess622who]

@scipio1492 Frida Khalos work is so distinct from Diego Riveras. There is no way you could argue that she is imitating him (or anyone else for that matter).

[RETROGEMS]

@scipio1492 I don't get your nonsensical point. How does it matter that Kahlo and other various female artists were connected to male painters? Kahlo became a celebrated artist renowned for her own original artistic perspective and style--a style that led to her work ("The Frame") being purchased by the Louvre. She developed her own talents. A man didn't paint her paintings for her. Your argument lacks all common sense. How about you pick up an easel yourself and see what YOU can produce.

[jota40song]

Thank you!

[rija02]

This is a beautiful and wonderful museum. I very much enjoyed my visit.

[stevienickstwin]

Commendable post on Museum of Women in the Arts, but, a disgusting affront to have to view and listen to the propaganda and spin in the promo. Your promo insults the women that the Museum is portraying. STOP THAT! Women possess more intelligence than that.

[kunstmalerei]

What can I say? -> Great!

[GreatMuseums]

@kunstmalerei Thank you for watching our show!

[lilianamaya]

Great woman painter and video, thank you for sharing!!