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Friday, April 7, 2017

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

500 Years of
Female Portraits
In Western Art

90 Paintings 500 years in 3 minutes!
A mesmerizing 3-minute journey through 500 years of female portraits. Even if you're no art expert, you will still appreciate the beauty of these masterpieces and get blown away by the evolution of art over the years. 
How many of the 90 paintings did you recognize?
Watch the video first and then see how many artists you got correct below...

This Is How Much
The Female Portrait Has Evolved
In The Last 500 Years

By Katherine Brooks


Art history books have a reputation of showcasing dead, white, European males — DWEM — and the (mostly white) women they handpicked as muses. Portrait after portrait reveals a woman’s face through a man’s gaze, casting a rather unsavory light on the tendency of artists to eroticize, objectify or idolize the female form.
Artists in the 21st century have made strides to rectify art history’s mistakes — and critics and historians have begun to give women artists and artists of color their rightful place in the canon. But it’s difficult to forget the centuries of whitewashed paintings that still reign supreme. Case in point: artFido’s three-minute survey of 500 years of female portraits.

Names like Leonardo, Raphael, Hans, Peter, Pablo and Edouard dominate the list of featured paintings. Sure, the likes of Mary Cassatt and Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun attempt to break up the monotony, but the portrait images expose the real story. Art history just didn’t really evolve in the last 500 years.

You can catch a bit of change in the last 30 seconds of the video above, as the (still very white) faces become more and more abstract. But the takeaway from this montage: the art world needs more diversity, and quick.


 
 
 
 

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500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
Philip Scott Johnson
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by Philip Scott Johnson

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Nominated as Most Creative Video - 2nd Annual YouTube Awards

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See how many artists you got correct below...
or by heading to http://www.artfido.com/blog/500-years... to see the answers!
 
A list of the paintings used to create this video. Bach’s Suite No. 1, BWV 1007 In G Major- Sarabande Sound track performed by Yo-Yo Ma
Archangel (Angel of the Golden Locks) – Novgorod School, Russia late 12th century Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat – Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun 1782
La Scapigliata (The Lady of the Dishevelled Hair) – Leonardo da Vinci 1508 Portrait of Lady-in-Waiting to the Infanta Isabella – Peter Paul Rubensid 1620’s Portrait of Maggie Wilson – Frank Duveneck 1898
The Madonna of the Carnation – Leonardo da Vinci 1478-80 Lady with a Flower in her Hair – El Greco c. 1590-1600 Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge – Mary Cassatt 1879
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) – Leonardo da Vinci 1503-05 Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov – Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1864 Ideal Head – Julian Alden Weir c. late 19th century
Lady with a Unicorn – Raphael c. 1505 Young Housewife – Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov 1840’s Portrait of a Woman – Paul Cesar Helleu 1909
The Birth of Venus – Sandro Botticelli 1485 Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina – Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky 1797 Ols Maria – Anders Zorn 1918
Portrait of a Young Woman – Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 1536 Portrait of V. S. Putyatina – Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov 1815-1816 The Artist – Alphonse Maria Mucha 1920
Portrait of a Lady as St. Lucy – Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio 1500 Madame Pasteur – Antoine-Jean Gros 1795-96 The Matyr of the Solway – John Everett Millais 1871
Sacred Conversation – Giovanni Bellini 1490 Amalie von Schintling – Joseph Karl Stieler 1831 Madeleine Bernard – Paul Gauguin 1888
Profane Love (Vanity) – Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 1514-1515 Portrait of M. A. Kikina – Orest Adamovich Kiprensky 1816 Woman with a Hat – Henri Matisse 1905
Judith with the Head of Holofernes – Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) c. 1515 Woman with a Pearl – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot c. 1869 Madras Rouge – Henri Matisse 1907
Mary Magdalene – Pietro Perugino 1500 The Reading – Edouard Manet 1869 Cocolo – Francis Picabia 1936-38
Portrait of Ginevra de Benci – Leonardo da Vinci 1476 Berthe Morisot – Edouard Manet 1872 Ritratto di Signora di Klimt – Gustav Klimt 1916-17
Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani ) – Leonardo da Vinci 1483 – 1490 Charlotte Dubourg – Henri Fantin-Latour 1882 La fleur (serigraph) – Henri Matisse 1937
Virgin Annunciate (Maria der Verkundigung) – Antonello da Messina 1476 Portrait of an Italian Woman – Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov 1851 Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya, the Artist’s Secretary – Henri Matisse 1947
La Donna Velata (Woman with a Veil) – Raphael c.1514 Princess Albert de Broglie – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 1851-53 The Mask – Louis Welden Hawkins 1905
Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman – Albrecht Durer 1505 An Elegant Beauty – William Clark Wontner c. early 20th century Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil) – Rene Magritte 1946
Portrait of a Woman – Lucas Cranach the Elder 1526 Souvenir – William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1895 F. Champenois – Alphonse Maria Mucha 1897
Portrat der Maria Maddalena Portinari – Hans Memling 1470 La Belle Liseuse (The Beautiful Reader) – Leon Francois Comerre 19th century Cycles Perfecta – Alphonse Maria Mucha 1902
Lais of Corinth – Hans Holbein the Younger 1526 Modesti – William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1902 Raphaelesque Head Exploding – Salvador Dali 1951
Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher – Albrecht Durer 1499 Pavonia – Lord Frederick Leighton 1858-59 Head Bombarded with Grains of Wheat – Salvador Dali 1954
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire – Sir Joshua Reynolds 1775-76 A Portrait of a Young Lady – Eugene de Blaas c. late 19th century Apparition of a Face with a Fruit Dish on a Beach – Salvador Dali 1938
Jane, Countess of Harrington – Sir Joshua Reynolds 1778 Musette – Eugene de Blaas 1900 Woman Torso – Kazimir Malevich 1928-1932
Mrs. John Hale – Sir Joshua Reynolds 1762-64 An Arab Beauty – Leon Francois Comerre c. late 19th century American Beauty (The Movie Star) – Knud Merrild 1928
Mrs. Abington – Sir Joshua Reynolds 1764-1773 Girl Braiding Her Hair (Suzanne Valadon) – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1885 Portrait of Lunia Czechowska – Amedeo Modigliani 1919
Charlotte-Aglae d’Orleans (Duchesse de Modene) – Pierre Gobert 1744 Portrait of Madame Henriot – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1877 Tumblers (Mother and Son) – Pablo Picasso 1905
Portrait of Suzanna Huygens – Caspar Netscher 1667-69 Two Sisters on the Terrace – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1881 Maternity – Pablo Picasso 1905
The Marquise de Seignelay and Two of her Children – Pierre Mignard 1691 Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1878 Nude Woman In A Red Armchair – Pablo Picasso 1932
Madame Victoire de France – Jean-Marc Nattier 1748 La Chevelure (Young Woman Braiding Her Hair) – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1876 Portrait of Francoise – Pablo Picasso 1946
Unknown Woman in a Blue Dress with Yellow Trimmings – Fyodor Rokotov 1760’s Blonde Nude – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1882
Le Chapeau de Paille (The Straw Hat) – Peter Paul Rubens c. 1626 La Promenade – Edouard Manet c. 1880

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