Post 5

            
For my 5th blog post, I chose Judy Chicago. She is an artist and is known for her feminist artworks. Judy Chicago started her artistic movement for women in contemporary art. She directed the women-only feminist art program in California Institute. She inspired many people by supporting the women’s movement in art society. She saw the problems of male-dominated art scenes or works and was really successful in those movements.

    Moving on to her works, her artworks she great meanings in feminism and the two famous works are through the flower, and the dinner party. First, the Through the Flower is a painting that represents her struggle as women in a male-dominated art community. Back in the art community, it was really hard to be successful when the artist publishes their artwork with a female’s name. People would have prejudice first and would judge the artwork based on their gender. When looking at the painting, it has abstract shapes and those shapes represent women’s sexual organs. This represented that the women’s genital was too concealed in art society, for example when showing the nudes of women in arts. As showing the women’s genital openly with abstract shapes, this breaks the rule in male-dominated art society.

Judy Chicago's Through the Flower

    Second, The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by Judy Chicago and this artwork celebrates the female history that may have been forgotten. This artwork is installed as a perfect triangle and the perfect triangle represents the seats for women. The triangle is set up with tables and on the tables, there are plates filled with butterfly or flowers. When sitting at the table, the men usually take the main seat and the women take the seat left over. Other than this, this artwork criticizes the male-dominated art society, and also the male-dominated world. This artwork shows that every woman is given equal seats and equal treats. The Dinner Party by Chicago was the most significant and recognized piece of feminist art ever made. It is still really famous until now. This installation is now available at the Brooklyn Museum if you are interested. Link is here

Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party

-Haelee Lee