Käthe Kollwitz, The Weavers March, 1896

·      Was a print maker

·      Very liberal bringing up

·      World War one and two are her focuses

·      Father encouraged her to become an artist

·      He didn’t want her to get married

·      She got married and said it helped her make art

·      Husband was a doctor to the poor

·      She focused on a lot of tragic life of the poor

Käthe Kollwitz, Death Seizing a Woman, 1934

Sonia Delaunay, Electric Prisms, 1914

·      She was also involved in literature

·      She is really in the decorative arts 

·      She talks about color being simultaneous

·      Much of her stuff did not survive

Sonia Delaunay, Costume for Cleopatra, 1918

·      Made costumes for plays

·      Wonderful costumes

·      Suzan Valadon

·      Started off as a model

·      She had a son

·      She worked a lot of different jobs

·      Son became a painter

Marie Laurencin, Group of Artists, 1908

France Avant-Garde

Suzanne Valadon, The Blue Room, 1923

·      Breaks a bunch of rules, smoking a cigarette and isn’t thin

first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts

Joined the circus

Vanessa Bell, Bathers in a Landscape, 1913

Weird group of people

lived in a farm house

decorative arts

Vanessa Bell, Sitting Room, Charleston, Sussex, c. 1916

Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant Painting, c. 1920

Her lover