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Join me @Roundtable_92NY for 4 online lectures! From Mon Oct 31, I'll be retelling history from the perspective of the women (and men) behind the great artists – revealing how the "muse" trope is unfair and romanticized https://t.co/NKe3UJqm1N
There's always a darker side to paradise, as Winslow Homer shows in 'Forces of Nature' @NationalGallery. Beaches are invaded by colonial rule, red flags wave, ships are surrounded by sharks, tall walls segregate ppl, trees are torn by hurricanes. How these images still resonate
With the spotlight on Lucian Freud @NationalGallery, what role did his muses play in their portraits? Sue Tilley has spoken of their "collaboration" in his studio, where she made him "appreciate the fuller figured woman" on the famous sofa he bought just for her
Just look at the hands of Arts + Crafts embroiderer, Jane Morris, in Pre-Raphaelite portraits of her
Just 1 week until Shani Rhys James' show, ‘What Came of Picking Flowers’ opens @TheRealArtWales! I've written the catalogue essay about the paintings, based on a fairy tale, while reflecting continued violence against women, who venture into a field alone https://t.co/SnmcEeACMs
#BOTD 1926, Lawrence Alloway was a curator, critic, model + husband of feminist painter, Sylvia Sleigh. Often posing nude, Alloway acted as a great feminist ally for his wife who gender-swapped art history's masterpieces, filling them with male, not female, muses