Women have
always been depicted in art however, there has not been many mentions of their
talent. It seems like only men have been portrayed
in the Western artistic world. Thanks to the technological advances in the
21st century, and the advancements in technology of the 21st
century and the rise of women in the field, more women are getting into the spotlight. This article will examine some of the remarkable female
artists of today. They have a huge following on social media
and some of them had millions of dollars prior to turning twenty. They're self-made and have proven that becoming an artist
is an actual possibility.
Arghavan Khosravi
Arghavan Khosravi, an Iranian artist living
and is based at New York. Her cultural
heritage is a major influence on her work heavily and she incorporates textiles
from Iran and thinks about the status of women in her home country, as well as
her own sense of alienation from it. Khosravi is
the 2019 recipient of Joan Mitchell's Painters and Sculptors Grant and a
recipient in 2017 and 2018 of the Walter Feldman Fellowship. The work of
the artist is part of those of Newport Art Museum and the Rhode Island School
of Design Museum.
Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984 in Shahr-e-kord, Iran) obtained the MFA in
painting at the Rhode Island School of Design following the completion of the
studio art course in Brandeis University. Khosravi has
previously received an BFA with a major in graphic Design at Tehran Azad
University and an MFA in Illustration from the University of Tehran. The artist
has recently had exhibitions at notable places like at the Orlando Museum of
Art, FL and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China; Newport Art
Museum, Newport, RI and Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA; among
others. Khosravi has been a resident in the Fine Arts
Work Center, Provincetown, MA; the Studios at MassMoCA, North Adams, MA; Monson
Arts, Monson, ME as well as Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY. She was a
recipient in 2019 from the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Painters and sculptures
Grant. She was also the recipient for 2017-18 of the Walter Fieldman Fellowship. Her work can
be seen within the collection of Newport Art Museum and the Rhode Island School
of Design Museum. Khosravi reside in New Jersey and works in New
York as a member artist with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
Her work is not just visually captivating,
but it is also loaded with political commentaries. I came across her work in the latter part of
2019 several months prior to the outbreak, via Instagram and was immediately
captivated by it. The bright colours and the soft skin are
juxtaposed with bizarre elements like the ankle bond, explosives and fragments
of sculptures, broken structures ropes, keys, and locks. The work is
populated with symbols of the censorship of society, like locks or masks, as
well as bonds which reflect the artist's experiences of growing as a child in
Iran.
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo's work did not just have an
impression on the own homeland of Mexico but all over the world. Her artworks gave us a deep insight into her
life including her turbulent relation her relationship with Diego Rivera to her
inability to have children. When you look through her paintings,
you will experience her suffering and catch an insight into the person she was.
Kahlo was regarded as one of Mexico's most
outstanding artists. She began self-portraits mostly after she suffered a
serious injury during a crash on a bus. Kahlo became politically active and got married
to another artist from the communist movement Diego Rivera in 1929. Her
paintings were exhibited throughout Paris and Mexico prior to her death in the
year 1954.
In her entire life self-portraits are one
of the subjects that Frida Kahlo has always returned to. Artists always return
to their favorite themes: Vincent van Gogh his Sunflowers, Rembrandt his Self
Portrait as well as Claude Monet his Water Lilies. Kahlo didn't sell many paintings during her
lifetime, but she occasionally painted portraits for orders. Kahlo had
one solo show in Mexico during her lifetime in 1953, a year prior to her death
at 47.
Her works are sold at very high costs. On May 6, 2006 Frida Kahlo's self-portrait Roots which
was sold at $5.62 million at an auction held by Sotheby's held in New York,
sets a record for the highest priced Latin American work ever purchased at
auction. It also creates Frida Kahlo among the most sought-after artists in the
field of art.
Caroline Larsen
Caroline Larsen is a Canadian artist who is
based in Toronto. Her work is
known for its amazing like sculptures created by her using pastry tubes filled
with paint. They're vibrant and packed with texture. It's
actually candy for the eyes.
Born born in Toronto, Canada in 1980,
Larsen studied at Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo in Toronto and then
earned her Art Education Diploma at the University of Aukland in New Zealand
and later went further to obtain her MFA with honors from Pratt in 2015.
At first glance, Larsen's work appears to
be composed of fabric, possibly an embroidery of some sort. However, what we're seeing are oil paintings
with intricate designs that Larsen creates by pouring paint in the pipe bags
before pressing it directly to the canvas.
Each of Larsen's paintings requires about a
month to design, beginning with the search on for images on the internet that
match her style of painting, and then it's time to plan the colour scheme, and
finally put together the idea of what she would like to paint.
Claire Tabouret
Claire Tabouret is a French artist from LA. Her work is renowned for its paintings of
characters that she paints using loose, expressive brushstrokes. Her work is
renowned for its makeup-related paintings, and her work have been sold for
around half a million dollars in auctions in the year 2020. Through her
representational paintings as well as drawings and sculptures Claire explores
the concept of personal identity and takes a deeper to childhood and the
complexities of it as well as the individuals who are isolated within a larger
group. Sometimes, they are covered, fabricated or
disguised, women and children who are silent stand before the viewer as frozen
frames.
Claire Tabouret studied at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts, Paris. Inspired by
a sense of the passage of time as well as the vulnerability floodgates opened
by human interactions Tabouret's art practice is interspersed between moments
of productive urgency and peaceful reflection, and accompanied by layers,
fabric and free, fluid strokes. Her fluid palette is suspended in the
air between the makeup's synthetic hues and the subdued earth tones and evokes
the organic and synthetic components of representation. Tableaux
that depict bodies in conflict portraits, and paintings of groups of people
ranging from debutantes to migrants in the sea and even landscapes are usually
colored with colors, creating the impression of a place and site-specificity. For her
monotypes, Tabouret uses the phantom staining left by the press to create
transparency and opacity in her depictions of sexuality, conflict, and love.
In her paintings of figurative nature as
well as drawings and sculptures Claire Tabouret scrutinizes identity and
explores childhood and its mysteries that leave the person alone or in the
context of a group. Sometimes, covered,
or disguised, women and children with faces that are mute stand before the
viewer as frozen frames. The most recent, immersive mural that
was created on Fabregues Castle in the south of France is a prime example of
the timeless, and sometimes carnivalesque world that the artist has created
through her paintings. The majority of her paintings are coated with a
reflective layer, and then exhibited using large-sized canvases, her paintings
which have tonalities that can be darker and at times acidic, like in the
grouping of the Debutantes are awash with theatrical mystery. Prior to the
depiction of characters and groups, which might evoke the style from Romantic
art, Claire Tabouret was often attracted to aquatic diurnal as well as
nighttime landscapes. In this period she was particularly involved in
that series called Inondees, the Maisons Inondees,the series which led to her recognition as well as the
collection titled Migrations. The inspiration for these paintings comes from
archival or internet-based photos, her canvasses are stained by personal
experiences creating a world of memories and stories.
Marlene Dumas
It is said that this South African painter
is one of the most significant artists of the current. Marlene Dumas's striking works offer a glimpse
into her early life and what it was like growing as a child in the apartheid. She is
famous for her strokes that are characterized by movement as well as paints
that are soft and a little transparent. Her
paintings are real and full of images that appear as if they were created from
a past memory.
Marlene is a native of Cape Town, South
Africa. Between 1972 and 1975, she was a student at Cape
Town University, where she completed a BA in the field of Visual Arts. Her final
year of studies was in Haarlem situated in the Netherlands.
She has been living and working in
Amsterdam since the year 1976. Since 1978,
she's exhibited internationally and is one of Holland's best appreciated
artists. In 1995, she was a part of Holland at the Venice
Biennale, and in 1996, the Tate Gallery exhibited a selection of her work made
on papers.
In the past, Dumas created collages,
paintings drawing, prints, and installations. Dumas now works mostly with oils on canvas as
well as using ink onto paper. The sources
she relies on for her work are diverse and include magazine and newspaper
cuttings and personal memorabilia Flemish paintings, as well as Polaroid photos. Most of her
work can be classified as ' portraits but they're not photographs in
the conventional sense. Instead of representing the person in
question they express emotions or states of mind. Themes at
the heart of Dumas his work are sexuality and race and innocence and guilt love
and violence.
There are many female artists that could be added to this list, and they have a huge influence over popular culture. A few of them have more traditional backgrounds and are the primary reason behind the online art schools.
Manesha Peiris (2022)