Study Materials – by Paul Brians
Women Artists Assignment
Note: This study guide is presented here as a historical document only. Paul Brians is retired and his courses are no longer offered by WSU.
Because the “Art of the Western World” series pays little attention to the many interesting women artists who worked during our period, we will be exploring the subject here on the Web. When you have finished exploring the following sites, please write 50-100 words about what you have learned or found interesting, referring to specific artists and images. Place your comments in the Women Artists’ Assignment threaded discussion in The Bridge.
Step 1
First, go to the National Museum of Women in the Arts and read and look at all the material connected to following links called “18th Century” & “19th Century.” Keep in mind that the only images illustrated on this site are those contained in this particular museum’s permanent collection, so they are mostly minor works, and many important artists are not represented or discussed.
National Museum of Women in the Arts: Establishing the Legacy: From the Renaissance to Modernism
Feel free to explore the museum further, but be warned that the “video tour” crashed my computer.
Step 2
Now explore the following three sites:
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842)
- Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
- Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Additional websites about women artists
If you would like to know more about women artists, feel free to explore the following.
- Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757)
- More art by Carriera on the Web Gallery of Art
- More information on Mary Cassatt
- Six sculptures by Camille Claudel (1864-1943)
- Information about the 1988 film “Camille Claudel”
- Artemsia Gentileschi (text, no images)
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803)
- Judith Leyster
- Information about Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), pictures
- Links to Valadon works
- Valadon and Erik Satie
- Information about the film “Satie and Suzanne: The Passion of a Lifetime”
The Encyclopedia Britannica has good articles on these artists:
- Rosa Bonheur
- Rosalba Carriera
- Mary Cassatt
- Camille Claudel
- Artemesia Gentileschi
- Angelica Kaufmann
- Judith Leyster
- Berthe Morisot (Images in this article are those in the WebMuseum page referenced above).
- Suzanne Valadon
- Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
18th and 19th Century European Classics (Humanities 303)
- Using these Guides
- Syllabus
- Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
- Verdi: La Traviata
- The Enlightenment
- Voltaire: The Philosophical Dictionary
- The Problem of Evil
- Jacob Bronowski’s film, Knowledge or Certainty
- Romanticism
- Goethe: Faust
- Realism & Naturalism
- Zola: Germinal
- 19th-Century Russian Literature
- Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground
- Foreign Words and Phrases translated from Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
- The Influence of Nietzsche
- Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism
- Misconceptions, Confusions, and Conflicts Concerning Socialism, Communism, and Capitalism
- Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto
- French Impressionist Painting
Created by Paul Brians, June 30, 1998
Last revised December 8, 2005.