
Women by Women
For as long as art has existed, women have been the central subject. Depicted historically by male painters through the male gaze, women have been admired as objects of desire and of beauty. In past centuries, the artistic world was largely configured by a hypermasculine scene of male artists and art collectors. We have the great masters of the classicalist tradition, like Rembrandt, to thank for the mythically inspired, idealized trope of the female nude. Women in this context were seen but remained unheard.
With the emancipation of women at the turn of the 19th century, came a shift in this mentality in the world of art. Nowadays we see as many female artists as we see of their male peers. What once was a women's education, to take up embroidery, painting and other artistic pursuits are now no longer viewed as gender-biased activities. In the 21st century, contemporary female artists such as Tracey Emin, Diane Arbus, and Cindy Sherman have re-explored the female subject through the lens of the feminist movement. Artists such as Emin have reimagined the nude through a woman's own eye. The woman has therefore transcended from object behind the lens of the camera or artist's paintbrush to subject and authority of her own image.
These paintings of women by women vary in medium and subject matter but are uniquely feminine in their depiction owing to the fact that no two women are the same. Artsper invites you to explore the female gaze through a variety of portraits and scenes of everyday life with women as the main subjects. Go check out our selection of contemporary female artists such as Charlotte Abramow, Sofiya Akimova and Lorna Simpson at the front of this new artistic campaign: art of women by women for women!
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Woman in red, triptych
Diana Fuchs
Painting - 80 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,000





That's life, That's life #265
Céline Pierzchala
Print - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$152


What’s Kept Inside
Maisha De la Cruz
Painting - 123 x 214 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 84.3 x 0.4 inch
$9,916












La violoniste au chapeau
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,691





Luvina
Patricia Pierre Gomez Baranda
Painting - 60 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$846

La cage et L'encre noir
Sandra Chevrier
Print - 71.1 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 28 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$1,466







La Cage Et La Trace Du Crayon (Large)
Sandra Chevrier
Print - 73.5 x 60 cm Print - 28.9 x 23.6 inch
$2,850




Pieces of me
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$900 $630









La Cage, béatitude ravageuse
Sandra Chevrier
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 2 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.8 inch
$19,000



The sound if flying souls
Brooke Shaden
Photography - 25 x 25 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$902


Femme dans les nuages
Gris De Garance
Painting - 30 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$113



La petite tasse de lait
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 55 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,578


Demain, mon rêve d'aujourd'hui, Paris
Julie Peiffer
Photography - 50 x 45 cm Photography - 19.7 x 17.7 inch
$620

Sometimes in the wind
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$902

Woman in yellow blouse
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,255

Salvatora mundi
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$676

La moitié de mon bonheur
Marta Grassi
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.9 inch
$1,578



Medusa
Fatunmbi Anjolaoluwa Grace
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,200



Eternal Recurrence #63, Photo collage with intervention by the artist
Natasha Zupan
Photography - 151.1 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 59.5 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$6,000

I believe in pink
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$676






Dreaming in Technicolor
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 21 x 21 x 0.6 cm Sculpture - 8.25 x 8.25 x 0.25 inch
$400

Where the fuck did monday go
Marie Boralevi
Fine Art Drawings - 140 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$6,765

Anxious portrait
Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,210

Kevinours Love Keny Arkana X Shadee K
Priscilla Vettese
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$282



Sensations Sauvages
Linda Clerget
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,691

Eternal Recurrence #43, Enlarged Photo Print
Natasha Zupan
Photography - 152.4 x 135.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 53.5 x 0.1 inch
$5,000

Lucia at eleven
Cristina Fontsare
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$902

Ideally this print will take you far away
Laure Prouvost
Print - 60 x 45 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 inch
$1,353


Le manteau rouge
Victorine Follana
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,015


