a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.

Baroque       

end of the 16th century – 1750  

Interest in light and space

Rich use of color and dramatic contrasts

Innovative illusionism

More emphasis on emotion than reason

Humanism

Male gaze

Tempera

a fast drying, water-based paint that

Tenebrism

use of strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated areas to create dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting   

Oil paint

a slow drying paint that

Opus Anglicanum

embroidered works made in English workshops during the 11th century

"Man is the measure of all things."

Women of all classes were considered far inferior to males

For what reasons did a medieval woman join a convent?

• Wanted to live a religious life
• Adult women with pasts to be forgotten
• Daughters presented as tithes by parents
• Sickly or un-marriageable daughter
• Women who wanted to escape the roles of motherhood and marriage - convents provided the only opportunity for women to live outside the constraints of medieval society

When women were able to make art in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, what kinds of works did they produce? 

Because of the structure of commerce, Medieval women's artistic production usually falls into two categories: Illuminated manuscripts and Embroideries

·      Nuns produced illuminated manuscripts

What is the Renaissance ideal of beauty and what artist/s helped to form it?

Noblewoman

Fair skin

Curly hair

Dark eyes

Perfectly curved brows

During the Renaissance, it became popular for husbands to have portraits painted of their wives in a distinctive manner. How were these wives customarily portrayed? What does this tradition say about the woman's place in Renaissance society?

The side profile of the woman, usually wearing the crest of the family and jewels

What influence/ significance did the city of Bologna have to women's art history?

Having a university that admitted women, beginning in the 13th century

Painter's guild honored a female patron - Saint Catherine

Men and women joined its artisans guild equally

More women artists associated with Bologna than any other Italian city

How does Artemisia Gentileschi depart from tradition in her depictions of these women?

Removes Susanna from the garden

Presents Susanna as unwillingly exposed rather than allow the viewer to gaze upon her with voyeuristic freedom

Portrays Susanna as disgusted and horrified

by the advances rather than as a seductress

Abstract Expressionism

Gain full social and economic equality

Reveal and question society's definition of women's roles

To use collaboration to undermine the authority of patriarchy

To examine the natural processes of the body long disregarded by western culture

The Feminist Art Program

was an experiment in teaching

 Participants engaged in consciousness raising sessions

Collaboration was encouraged with the intention of forming a community

Minimalism

Many artists in the 60s expressed an urge to dematerialize the art object

Minimalists sought to rid art of everything that was not essential

Post-Parum Document

influenced by Juliet Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism 1974

Mother and child are united in early infancy

The child becomes a link to power for the mother - the phallus

As the child gains language, the mother begins to lose possession of the child

The child's linguistic initiation gives him a positive relation to the phallus

While the mother is returned to the position of lack

Postmodernism