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'The Cadence of Autumn' by Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan, #BOTD 1855. Telling myths + legends from a female perspective, her active heroines appear clothed(!) + connected to nature🍂
For years ‘Honeysuckle’ (1883) was assumed to have been designed by William Morris. However, the bestseller was by his daughter, May Morris. An embroiderer, designer, jeweller + activist, she was a leading member of the Arts + Crafts Movement, teaching at Birmingham School of Art
I am woman, hear me roar! Here are my thoughts on the @britishmuseum's ferocious 'Feminine power' exhibition, which proves that femininity is a changeable social construct https://t.co/nGBUcCcCAP
Salvador Dalí's surrealist illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1969
Paula Rego (1935 - 2022), you spoke out for so many women + changed the world, as well my life, with your fearless, fantastic artworks. RIP 🖤
The bewitching women of bisexual surrealist artist, Leonor Fini
Did you know that the letters in ‘Mona Lisa’ are an anagram of ‘Mon Salaì’? Nicknamed 'Little Devil' by Da Vinci, because of his penchant for stealing, he was the artist's servant, apprentice + muse. Did this beautiful boy also inspire the most famous portrait in the world?
#BOTD 1916, feminist artist Sylvia Sleigh subverted historical masterpieces by swapping undressed women for nude male models, as in 'Philip Golub Reclining' (1971)