The Feminist art movement emerged in the late 1960's during the large public support of anti-war demonstrations as well as civil, gay and women rights movements - the feminist wanted to produce art that reflects a normal women lives and experiences, but they didn't just want to produce feminist work but to completely change how women were seen in contemporary art and improve their position in an already well established art world.
Before feminism the most women and female artists were denied exhibitions and gallery representation based on the fact they were women - so they created alternative venues and worked to change the polices that would promote women artists visibility within the art world.
They wanted to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through the inclusion of a women's perspective, so the message was that art was not merely for aesthetic admiration but also could get the viewer to question the social and political standing point and possibly change the views towards equality.
Suzanne Lacy said that the goal of feminist art = "To influence cultural attitudes and transform stereotypes"
There isn't a particular style that the Feminist artist use since they come from all different artistic disciplines and often combined aspects from various movements and media (including concept art, body art and video art) that presented a message about women's experience and the need for gender equality.
They often embraced alternative media such as fabric and performance as these material didn't have the historically male-dominated precedent that painting and sculpture carried, by using these non-traditional media they wanted to expand the definition of fine arts to include a wider variety of media.
Feminist art created opportunities and spaces that previously didn't exist for women and minority artist as well as paved a way for the identity art and activist art if the 1980's.
Before feminism the most women and female artists were denied exhibitions and gallery representation based on the fact they were women - so they created alternative venues and worked to change the polices that would promote women artists visibility within the art world.
They wanted to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through the inclusion of a women's perspective, so the message was that art was not merely for aesthetic admiration but also could get the viewer to question the social and political standing point and possibly change the views towards equality.
Suzanne Lacy said that the goal of feminist art = "To influence cultural attitudes and transform stereotypes"
There isn't a particular style that the Feminist artist use since they come from all different artistic disciplines and often combined aspects from various movements and media (including concept art, body art and video art) that presented a message about women's experience and the need for gender equality.
They often embraced alternative media such as fabric and performance as these material didn't have the historically male-dominated precedent that painting and sculpture carried, by using these non-traditional media they wanted to expand the definition of fine arts to include a wider variety of media.
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