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Interview with Tattoo Artist Loz

By: Loz

The Woodcuts of Suzanne Balkanyi

By: Alan Sekers

Clare Leighton and the Fine Art of Mass Reproduction

By: Prof. Kristin Bluemel

‘Fluid Rego’

By: Alistair Hicks

The Radical Nudes of Alice Neel

By: Anna Sampson

‘Alice Neel – An Engaged Eye’ at the Centre Pompidou, Paris

By: Maudji

Emmy Bridgwater: The Edge of Beyond

By: Ruth Millington

Nicola L. – Pop Art and The Female Gaze

By: Maudji

Interview with Jeweller Carly Owens

By: Carly Owens

An Interview with Artist Susanne Du Toit

By: Susanne Du Toit

In Visible; Interview with Esther Shalev-Gerz

By: Esther Shalev-Gerz

Marlene Dumas and Womanhood – A Few Paintings From Her Exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice

By: Sacha Llewellyn

Carolee Schneemann – Body Politics

By: Lydia Lane, Ruby Powers

Where is Ana Mendieta?

By: Anna Sampson

Interview with Visual Artist Amelo Asensio

By: Amelo Asensio

Interview with Figurative Artist Heather Nevay

By: Heather Nevay

How Ithell Colquhoun Has Chosen Her Moment

By: Amy Hale

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today

By: Maudji

Laura Knight, Painting Women and Freedom of Choice

By: Ruth Guilding

The Urinal Controversy

By: Maudji

Rediscovering Laura Knight

By: Timothy Wilcox

An Interview with Fausta Squatriti

By: Sacha Llewellyn

‘The Never-ending Movements of the Needle’; The Embroidery Art of Frances Richards

By: Sacha Llewellyn

“I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them” – A Look Into the World of Diane Arbus (1923-1971)

By: Maudji

Protest, Participation and Solidarity; Headwear in the Work of Zanele Muholi

By: Sacha Llewellyn

Interview with Stylist and Costume Designer Danielle Goldman

By: Danielle Goldman

Interview With Photographic Artist Anna Sampson

By: Anna Sampson

Nina Childress: ‘Le tombeau de Simone De Beauvoir’

By: Sacha Llewellyn

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🗣️ THIS WEEK IN RAW 🗣️

Exploring pioneering female printmakers and engravers…with a contemporary twist…thank you @loz_tattooer for such an interesting interview!

Go to the RAW website blog to read this now!

#engravers #tattoo #printmakers #womenengravers #modernart #rawblog #rediscoveringartbywomen #artgallery #blogger #interview #clareleighton #suzannebalkanyi #blankcollective #tattooing

Paula Rego currently has her first ever museum show in Germany, at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover (until January 29th) and also in Turkey at the Pera Museum in Istanbul (until 30th April).

🗣️« While Paula Rego belatedly was recognised as one of the leading feminist pioneers of her age, little has been written about her exploration of fluid sexuality. Indeed the current of sado-masochism in her drawings and paintings, has tended to encourage an understanding as a classic clash between the patriarchy and exploited women. Her first museum exhibitions in Turkey and Germany show that she had a far more fluid appreciation of gender and identity than which she has been credited… »

🎨 Go to the RAW blog page to read curator Alistair Hicks’ @global_art_compass online feature before the show ends on January 29th at The Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover!

🥇The Turkish Bath, front (1960), Foundation Galouste Gulbenkian

🥈The Turkish Bath, back (1960), Foundation Galouste Gulbenkian

🥉Paradise (1985), Private Collection

All images courtesy of Victoria Miro – © Ostrich Arts Ltd

❓ ⭐️ Did you know that Amelia Peláez (1896-1968) was one of Cuba’s foremost modernist painters?⁠
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⭐️ This painting, titled "Olimpia" (1955), is a response to Manet's famous "Olympia" which Peláez saw at the Louvre (where it then hung) when she lived in Paris between 1927 - 34.⁠
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❓ Can you spot any major differences between Peláez's and Manet's versions:⁠
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1) Instead of a bouquet of flowers, Peláez' servant figure holds a platter of tropical fruit.⁠
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2) Peláez' reclining figure is clothed and seated on a dais embroidered with traditional Cuban lace.⁠
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3) Peláez’s reclining figure does not engage the viewer with her gaze, but rather looks elsewhere.⁠
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🗣️ “I am not interested in copying", Peláez once said. "What matters is the relation of the motif with oneself, with one’s personality, and the power the artist has to organize his emotions.”⁠
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#caribbean #cuba #cubanwomanartist #womanartist ⁠
#artgallery #exhibition #oilpainting #arthistory #artlover #figurativeart #manet #olympia #olimpia

Did you know British abstract artist Paule Vézelay (1892-1984) is represented in the RAW collection with five major works?

🥇Paysage, Three Horses, 1929

🥈L’Animal, 1929

🥉Lines in Space, No. 42, 1964

Head over to our website to find the 4th & 5th ones!

Closely associated with André Masson (1896–1987) (with whom she lived in Paris for four years), Jean Arp (1886–1966), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943) and Alberto Giacometti (1901 – 1996). By the early 1930s Vézelay’s work had become increasingly abstract, and she joined Abstraction-Création in 1934. One of only a few British members, she was committed to international, non- representational art. She returned to London at the outbreak of WWII and experimented with new artistic forms, including reliefs, painting and textiles, some of which were shown at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1968. A retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Tate Gallery in 1983.

#paulevézelay #abstractartist #britishabstractpainting #rawcollection #feministart #womenartists #rediscoveringwomenartists

3 THINGS TO GET EXCITED ABOUT IN 2023

This week we celebrate 6 months since we launched RAW and take a look at some of the exciting things happening in 2023!

1. We will be lending works to the wonderful “Le Surréalisme au Féminin” show at the Musée de Montmartre in 2023!

2. We organised our first artist residency and awarded a £10,000 prize to a contemporary artist to develop a photo book which will be published by RAW in 2023!

3. We will be editing a major new publication by Yale University Press shining the light on yet another under-represented artist!

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First photo by the wonderful @annabroujean

#artbywomen #modernart #rediscoveringart #rawblog #prize #yalepress #marybethedelson #janegraverol #slobodkina #contemporaryart #artprize #rawart

‼️ It’s crazy what a difference 35-years can make. ⁠

⁠⭐️⭐️ This stunning painting by Jane Graverol - 'Le Chant du Cygne' (1958) sold recently @sothebysfr for £60,000. Swipe 👈 to see what it (didn't) sell for in 1987!⁠
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#sold #forsale #buy #justsold #onlineauction⁠
#artgallery #femaleartist #oilpainting #dailyart #janegraverol #womansurrealist

"The Bridge" (1930) is probably Dorrit Black's best-known painting. Painted in luminous colours, it depicts Sydney Harbour Bridge in construction, and is considered to be Australia's first cubist landscape. ⁠
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#contemporaryart #abstractart #femaleartist #artistsoninstagram⁠
#sydneyaustralia #sydney #seeaustralia #sydneylife #sydneyharbourbridge #dorritblack

👑 The Queen of Punk - and of our hearts ❤️ - has died, aged 81.

🖤 RIP Vivienne Westwood (1941 - 2022)

#viviennewestwood #queenofpunk

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