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Pearl in the Oyster
Fatimah Hossaini
Photography - 62 x 82 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24.4 x 32.3 x 0.1 inch
£3,105
0 Dark Thirty
Agnès de la Roncière
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,686
Résurrection
Annie-Claude Ferrando
Sculpture - 60 x 50 x 20 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 19.7 x 7.9 inch
£4,613
Two
Anna Lageda
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 12.8 x 0 inch
£355
What’s Kept Inside
Maisha De la Cruz
Painting - 123 x 214 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 84.3 x 0.4 inch
£7,802
Woman in yellow blouse
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,464
The illusion of peace
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£6,210
La violoniste au chapeau
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,331
La cage et L'encre noir
Sandra Chevrier
Print - 71.1 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 28 x 28 x 0.1 inch
£1,153
Angel, no. EA III/IV
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 27 x 6.5 x 6 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 2.6 x 2.4 inch
£1,233
Rouge baiser
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£488
Where the fuck did monday go
Marie Boralevi
Fine Art Drawings - 140 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£5,323
Je ne travaille pas, je suis travaillée
Miss.Tic
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£7,052
The sound if flying souls
Brooke Shaden
Photography - 25 x 25 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
£710
White trash beautiful I (29 Palms, CA)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 60 x 59 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.2 x 0 inch
£1,774
Eternal Recurrence #63, Photo collage with intervention by the artist
Natasha Zupan
Photography - 151.1 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 59.5 x 48 x 0.1 inch
£4,877
La Cage Et La Trace Du Crayon (Large)
Sandra Chevrier
Print - 73.5 x 60 cm Print - 28.9 x 23.6 inch
£2,317
La Cage, béatitude ravageuse
Sandra Chevrier
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 2 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.8 inch
£15,445
Tchin tchin
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,952
Le manteau rouge
Victorine Follana
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£976 £878
Eternal Recurrence #43, Enlarged Photo Print
Natasha Zupan
Photography - 152.4 x 135.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 53.5 x 0.1 inch
£4,064
Dreaming in Technicolor
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 21 x 21 x 0.6 cm Sculpture - 8.25 x 8.25 x 0.25 inch
£325
Anxious portrait
Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,796
Stolen childhood
Marina Dobrovolskaya
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£4,436
Lucia at eleven
Cristina Fontsare
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£710
Ideally this print will take you far away
Laure Prouvost
Print - 60 x 45 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 inch
£1,065
Como el agua - Descodificación 7-8-2002 (Identity assertions series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 30 x 48.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 19.1 x 0 inch
£466
Portrait of a girl with glasses
Eugene Gorbachenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,774
On est notre environnement. Série Euskadi 5
Aline Part
Photography - 67 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£444
Medusa
Fatunmbi Anjolaoluwa Grace
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
£1,788
Throat of a Rose
Hollie Miller
Photography - 35.2 x 59.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13.9 x 23.4 x 0.1 inch
£1,242
Women by Women
For as long as art has existed, women have been the central subject. Depicted historically by male painters through the male gaze, women have been admired as objects of desire and of beauty. In past centuries, the artistic world was largely configured by a hypermasculine scene of male artists and art collectors. We have the great masters of the classicalist tradition, like Rembrandt, to thank for the mythically inspired, idealized trope of the female nude. Women in this context were seen but remained unheard.
With the emancipation of women at the turn of the 19th century, came a shift in this mentality in the world of art. Nowadays we see as many female artists as we see of their male peers. What once was a women's education, to take up embroidery, painting and other artistic pursuits are now no longer viewed as gender-biased activities. In the 21st century, contemporary female artists such as Tracey Emin, Diane Arbus, and Cindy Sherman have re-explored the female subject through the lens of the feminist movement. Artists such as Emin have reimagined the nude through a woman's own eye. The woman has therefore transcended from object behind the lens of the camera or artist's paintbrush to subject and authority of her own image.
These paintings of women by women vary in medium and subject matter but are uniquely feminine in their depiction owing to the fact that no two women are the same. Artsper invites you to explore the female gaze through a variety of portraits and scenes of everyday life with women as the main subjects. Go check out our selection of contemporary female artists such as Charlotte Abramow, Sofiya Akimova and Lorna Simpson at the front of this new artistic campaign: art of women by women for women!