Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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March 6, 2025

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In 1971, art historian Linda Nochlin wrote what has been considered the founding text for the study of art history from a feminist perspective, in which she asks, for the first time in art historiography, why there have been no great women artists. With her reflection, what she really wants us to ask is that, if there have been female painters, sculptors, illustrators, as there undoubtedly have been in the artistic panorama, why have they not been studied and recognized as such in art history?

Following the path started 50 years ago by Nochlin and which, gradually, has been followed since then by other art historians, galleries and museums, we will try with this talk to reveal a reality that has always been there and that has never been told, and that is that women also painted, sculpted, moved among male artists, and even, in some cases, supported their families with their work.

We will learn not only about their works and biographies, but also about the circumstances in which they tried to develop a predominantly masculine discipline. We will ask ourselves whether, if other more favourable conditions had been given, we would have more examples, and as a long-term objective we will internalise the need for, in the future, not to have to accompany the word "artist" with terms such as woman or man, but rather, when we study an artistic style and its works, we can recognise talent, quality, innovation, creativity… and many other qualities present in art.

The activity, scheduled for the day before March 8, Women's Day, will consist of a journey through the history of art through artistic manifestations in which women do not act as passive subjects (muses, models, etc.) but as artists, thus analyzing a reality that is very unknown today, which is that women, with the limitations imposed by society around them, were also artists: sculptors, painters, engravers, illustrators... who have been forgotten for decades and who need to be recognized and vindicated.