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The discrediting and ignoring of women in the art industry. (Big Eyes (Big…

- - - - Females don't even earn as much as men. On average, they earn $0.74 for ever dollar a man makes. If we look at the demographics of artists who make the most money out of their paintings, women only make up 40% of the list.
        
        As someone who is thinking about entering the art industry as a female, it is discouraging to see that we are seen as unoriginal and bland. The amount of male artists that we learn in school also subconsciously build that ideology, that good art stems from intrinsically talented men.
        
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    - - Females make up most of the population in art schools, but fail to represent even 3% of the art market.
    - - Men apparently rule the art world and women merely imitate them. Ironically, her art was stolen by Supreme. She received no credit for her artwork.
      - Women are idealized, sexualized, and misrepresented in art. They appear weak, cunning, manipulative. Kruger and other artists strive to break that stigma.
- - - - She often painting behind closed doors and curtains. Her daughter didn't even know that she was the true artist behind the big eyes until she accidentally walked in on Margaret painting.
- - - - The Renaissance was greatly inspired by Classical art, therefore shared many of the same idealogoies
      - Artists such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were seen as innate geniuses, and were revered greatly for their knowledge in Humanist texts.
        
        Women did not have access to education, and were discouraged from participating in learning. Humanism stemmed from the idea of man being seperate and divine like god. Women were seen as mere housekeepers and were not respected in society as intellectuals. .
  - - - Mesopotamian culture respected women and depicted them in art. Their religion allowed women to be exalted as priestess, and therefore were given a semi-equal status to men. They were also given admiration for being birth-givers.
    - - Egyptians shifted the narrative lightly, showcasing men as the dominant figure in society. Gods were seen to be connected divinely to Pharaohs and said to be made in the image of men, thus starting patriarchal ideologies in culture.
      - The female in this artwork is holding the arm of her partner, signaling the reliance of women on male figures.
  - - - Men were seen as the perfect bodies made in the image of god. Only men were allowed to participate in society and women were often left out of the narrative. Little to no art was made of women or by women. Even if they did make art, they were not written or recorded in history.