#georgia-okeeffe

#georgia-okeeffe

Anna Mond Twists Everyday Archetypes Into Masklike Creatures Whose Expressions Refuse To Reveal Whether They're Joking, Judging, Or Just Lonely Rock Stacking World Championship 2016 "What If Orthodox Priests Became Cosmonauts?": Artist Unites Two Russian Pillars In His Paintings Impressive Vintage Posters Designed by Eric de Coulon Amazing Editorial Thought-Provoking Illustrations by Derek Bacon Jeanne Vicerial Designs the Future of Sustainable Clothing Heartbreaking Works By The First Female Afghan Street Artist Photoshop Turns Rock Climbing

If you want to paint, put your clothes back on! That was how Carolee Schneemann summarised the critical response to her 1975 performance piece Interior Scroll, which she had performed nude standing on a gallery table. After making a series of life model poses, she removed a scroll from her vagina and began to read her manifesto. In doing so, Schneemann asked an important question: What does it mean for a female artist to be both the artist and the life model?

In her manifesto, Borderlands/La Frontera, Anzaldúa presents what she calls a new mestiza consciousness, which advocates for ambiguity and moves "toward a more whole perspective, one that includes rather than excludes." Groundbreaking when it was published in 1987, this theory pushed queer, feminist, and cultural scholars to consider how identity is both fluid and informed by several overlapping factors. It also helped to lay the groundwork for branches of study like ecofeminism,

Why the volte-face? Because it is now widely recognised in the art world that it was as much Moss who influenced Mondrian as the other way round, at least when it came to the double or parallel lines he started using in the 1930s to add tension to his harmonious abstract paintings, one of which hammered last May for $48m.

As an editor, you learn to pay attention to the nuances of language. How we phrase something can speak volumes about our perspectives. Some words are fine in one context, but in another they might be detrimental. "Victim" is an example - who wants "victimhood" to encompass their whole person? And possessives are a minefield of power relationships; for instance, a person experiencing mistreatment at the hands of a partner should be defined by neither the treatment nor the tormenter