{"id":12461,"date":"2023-11-24T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T09:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingkong-mag.com\/?p=12461"},"modified":"2023-12-04T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:48:22","slug":"weekly-24-11-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingkong-mag.com\/en\/weekly-24-11-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly \u2013 Friday 24.11.23"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nFriday is weekly: a digest of what the team has seen, read and listened to, and wants to share with you.\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n

Van Gogh, Monet, Turner, Picasso, Dali, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Hockney, Rivera, Gauguin\u2026 The names of male artists, which we can all list by the dozen. Well-known and recognised on every continent, their works are peppered throughout history of art books. The majority are considered key figures, the \u2018founding fathers\u2019 of impressionism, surrealism or pop art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, when it comes down to naming female painters, the task becomes more taxing. Let\u2019s give the exercise a try-out. Frida Kahlo, Niki de Saint-Phalle\u2026 And then it gets a little tricky, doesn\u2019t it? Go on then, we\u2019ll help you out a little. Have you heard of Leonora Carrington<\/a>, the British-Mexican painter, novelist, sculptor and activist ? Or of Berthe Morisot<\/a>, avant-gardist and co-founder of the impressionist movement? Or Janet Sobel<\/a>, the American-Ukrainian pioneer of abstract expressionism? Or Remedios Varo<\/a>, a Mexican surrealist painter of Spanish origin? Or what about  Amrita Sher-Gil<\/a>, a major Indian figure of modern art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These artists don\u2019t ring a bell? That\u2019s to be expected, and it must be said they gain a lot less media coverage than their male counterparts. Several have even been deliberately disavowed and erased from our memory. In the face of such injustice, the Brit Katy Hessel<\/a> for her part has wished to totally rewrite the history of art without the males. And that is what she has done in her work The Story of Art Without Men<\/a>, written during the lockdown. This literary triumph, crowned best seller of the year for 2022, celebrates female artists from 1500 to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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