Guerilla Girls’ poster from 2005 based off of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ Grande Odalisque These women are the superheroes of the art world.  When one of the original members came to speak at my college, her speech and explanation of what the Guerilla Girls do opened my eyes to the treatment of women in the art world, and women in the world at large.  I realized that I had been a feminist all along, and that the negative things I’d heard about feminists were lies and exaggerations made by people too afraid that a change might disrupt their comfortable social hierarchy. What the Guerilla Girls have to say: We’re a bunch of anonymous females who take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms and appear in public wearing gorilla masks. We have produced posters, stickers, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large. We use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny.
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Guerilla Girls’ poster from 2005 based off of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ Grande Odalisque

These women are the superheroes of the art world.  When one of the original members came to speak at my college, her speech and explanation of what the Guerilla Girls do opened my eyes to the treatment of women in the art world, and women in the world at large.  I realized that I had been a feminist all along, and that the negative things I’d heard about feminists were lies and exaggerations made by people too afraid that a change might disrupt their comfortable social hierarchy.

What the Guerilla Girls have to say:

We’re a bunch of anonymous females who take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms and appear in public wearing gorilla masks. We have produced posters, stickers, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large. We use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny.

Source: guerrillagirls.com

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    okay feminist art posts over!
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    I’m pretty positive this is up in the Pompadieu (I totally spelled that wrong) in Paris. Even women paint and draw naked...
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    now, there needs to be more naked gorillas in museums
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    Guerrilla Girls.
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