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Founded in 2019, Outsight is an online magazine and community addressing contemporary art issues such as inequality in the art world. Outsight's goal is to educate youth about the women artists forgotten by history, and steps made toward equal representation in the arts. Check out some of the latest blog posts below!
AMRITA SHER-GIL
Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter. Born in Budapest in 1913, Amrita gained recognition from a young age. She is an incredibly significant painter of 20th-century India. She once wrote, "I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque... India belongs only to me".
UEMURA SHOEN
Shoen (born Uemura Tsune) went on to become one of Japan’s most renowned female artists. She received many awards and forms of recognition within Japan, as she was the first female to receive the Order of Culture Award. She was also hired as the Imperial Household’s official artist, which had previously employed one woman in the same position.
LOUISE ABBÉMA
Louise Abbéma (b. 1853) was a French Impressionist painter. Like most women artists of the time, Abbéma focused mainly on portraiture and genre scenes (images of everyday life). Her high-society portraits executed with a light touch and rapid brushstrokes reveal the academic and Impressionist influences that shaped her style. Her sitters included French diplomats and other notable members of society. Abbéma was an impressionist during the "New Woman" era. The period of the New Woman encapsulated the radical changes toward women's equality and independence.
MARGARET KEANE
Margaret Keane (b. 1927) is an American artist known for her paintings of children with enormous eyes. In the 1960s, her husband, Walter Keane, claimed credit for her work. After confronting him, Margaret said that Walter “had all sorts of excuses” and told her that art is harder to sell by a woman painter. After their divorce, Margaret announced she was the real creator of the paintings and took Walter to court. The judge asked them both to paint to finally prove who created the big-eyed children. Walter refused to paint, citing a sore shoulder, meanwhile, Margaret completed her painting in 53 minutes. “I picked up my paintbrush and started painting right away”.
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ANA MENDIETA
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana in 1948. She immigrated to the United States where she studied art at the University of Iowa. She incorporated unusual natural materials like blood, dirt, water, and fire, and displayed her work through photography, film and live performances. Mendieta exemplified this best through a series called “Siluetas,” or “Silhouettes,” which focused on sculptured figures made out of earthy materials like grass, flowers, branches, and mud and incorporating themes like creation, faith, and womanhood. “It is a way of reclaiming my roots and becoming one with nature. Although the culture in which I live is part of me, my roots and cultural identity are a result of my Cuban heritage.”
AGNES DENES
Agnes Denes is a Hungarian-born American artist based in New York. She rose to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a leading figure in conceptual, environmental, and ecological art. Her best-known work is the two acres of wheat planted and harvested by the artist on the Battery Park landfill of Manhattan in the Summer of 1982. She titled it “Wheatfield — A Confrontation". The wheat field was two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center, facing the Statue of Liberty.
FRIDA KAHLO
Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City in 1907. She began to paint in 1925 while recovering from a near-fatal bus accident that devastated her body and marked the beginning of lifelong physical ordeals. In detailed paintings, Kahlo portrayed herself, again and again, exploring and questioning her self and identity. Kahlo is often classified as an artist of the Surrealist movement, yet she resisted the association: “They thought I was a Surrealist but I wasn’t,” she said. “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
ADRIAN PIPER
Adrian Piper is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. She was born in New York in 1948. Piper’s work has addressed gender, race, and xenophobia through conceptual art, work in which the concepts behind the art takes precedence over the physical object.
PAULINE BOTY
Pauline Boty was a founder of the British Pop art movement and the only female painter in the British wing of the movement.
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