JUDY CHICAGO
 |
| Rudy Chicago, The Birth Project, (1980-85) |
Judy Chicago was born in Chicago,
Illinois in 1939. She is a feminist artist who examines and empowers the role
that women had played in history. At a very young age, her father’s job in the
Communist Party influenced her to build this belief and ways of thinking
towards women. After her husband died, she decided to change her last name from
Gerowitz to Chicago not only because she want her last name to be something
independent, and neutral but also because she did not want to be part of the
social rule of having a male name in her identity. Chicago is also a writer, and an art educator with a particular way of teaching. At Fresno State College she
had her first class, which was also the first feminist art program in this
country. She decided that her class would be off campus so she rented a place
in which these women discussed about art, talked about the different
experiences that inspired them to do art, and supported each other to build and
project their work as feminist artist into the social world.
 |
| Rudy Chicago, The Dinner Party, (1974-79) |
The Dinner Party is one of the most
popular art pieces, it took her five years and more than 400 people to finish
this project of combining painting and needlework. In this work she represents
and emphasizes female figures throughout history. The lack of representation in
the art world about birth, inspired Chicago to create The Birth Project, which
took her around five years to finish as well. Even though she does not see
herself being a mother, she admires the path that entails the birth process and
motherhood. Her personality and knowledge led her to continue working for her
ideals and to help guide more women to follow and work to express experiences
as women through art.
No comments:
Post a Comment