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Hi, this is Anita with Five Minutes with
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Art. You know, art throughout the
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centuries is really was very much a
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um type of profession. But yet, there
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are some women artists who really helped
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change the world. And today I want to
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talk about some of those women artists
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who many of them are sort of unsung
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heroes or heroins because they help
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change the world. One is Lavina Fontana.
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She was u she lived from 1552 to 1614.
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She was one of the first women in
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Western Europe to manage her workshop
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and support a family through
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commissions. This would have been huge
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during this time. Remember, she lived in
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the 1500s and the 1600s. So, she was
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able to actually support a family. It
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was an era when women weren't allowed to
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be professional painters. She carved out
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a career for herself in Italy. She broke
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the professional boundaries that had not
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been broken before. So, she's really
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somebody that we need to um talk about
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and recognize as a great woman artist.
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Another woman that should be mentioned
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is Judith Lice Tier. She was a star of
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the Dutch Golden Age. Listier ran her
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own studio and was one of the first
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women admitted to the Harlem Painters
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Guild. For centuries, her work was
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misattributed to male artists. She
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actually lived from6009 to 1660. So this
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is a woman that again who also fought
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against the male domination during her
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time and even for centuries her work was
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thought to be the work of a male um
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artist when it was really her work. She
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mastered painting and she fought for
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creative ownership in this very
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patriarchal system that she was in.
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Another woman was Joseph de Obidos. She
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lived from 1630 to 1684. She was a
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Portuguese Baroque painter known for
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still lives and religious im imagery.
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She was one of the few women recognized
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in her time as a professional artist in
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Catholic Europe. You know one reason why
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she matters is she had great success in
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the conservative religious Portugal. It
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you know during that time and also her
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use of light and realism rivals her male
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count contemporaries. So she was not
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only, you know, breaking through the the
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patriarchal system that was going on
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there, but she also was someone who had
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a huge amount of talent. Another woman
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who's on my list that most people don't
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know about is a woman named Pan Yu
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Leang. She was lived from 1895 to 1977.
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She was a former sex worker turned
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modernist painter. She fused, you know,
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western techniques with Chinese
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subjects, you know, changing the
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aesthetics of the 20th century Chinese
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art. She fought stigma and exile to
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become one of the modern China's most
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important artists. And that's why I kind
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of, you know, put her into this list. I
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love her for the type of work that she
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did and how she really fought against
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stereotypes during her time. Another one
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of my favorite artists is Hilma Alfint
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which is a Swedish artist which isn't
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really wellnown um but she really is a
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very important artist. She was long
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before Kadinsky and Helma Alf Clint was
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painting abstract works of art inspired
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by spirituality, you know, mysticism.
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She, you know, paintings of swirling
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canvases and she is really an
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interesting character because when she
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died, she lived from 1862
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to 1944. She had written in her will
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that for like 20 years her paintings
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need to be kept um secret and they were
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until one of her relatives you know
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discovered them and you know like in the
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60s or so and then they discovered these
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massive beautiful works of modern art
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that nobody even knew existed. You know
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she matters because she's literally
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changed the timeline of modern art where
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her recognition now forces a rewrite of
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art history and she has some beautiful
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massive works. What's also interesting
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about her, she painted traditional
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things to earn a living, but she kept
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these type of works of art sort of more
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hidden because she felt like people
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didn't understand them. So, she really
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is a woman artist who changed the time.
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Another artist is Amriita Sheer Gil. She
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was lived from 1913 to 1941. She
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sometimes called India's you know Freda
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Ko and she blended European techniques
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with Indian themes creating a unique
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visual language and you know she really
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has some wonderful works of art with of
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Indian women and um you know other other
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subjects. She gave voice to Indian
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modernism and bridge the east west
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divide in the colonized world.
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I have um I have several more other
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women that are on here, maybe some of
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them that you do not know that um you
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can go on and you can we'll put a link
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in the description to our blog post on
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10 women artists who changed art history
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but you've never heard of and that you
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can discover some of these great women
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who really were trailblazers who changed
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art and art history and many profound
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ways. So, these are women that most
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people don't know about or maybe you've
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heard about them, but you don't really
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maybe you don't really know that much
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about them. But these are some fabulous
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women artists who changed art or changed
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art in their communities in very
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important ways. This is Anita from Five
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