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Guess Who (by artist's works!)
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? (Maria Lassnig)
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I am thinking of someone. Is this by chance a woman artist?
It is indeed a woman who painted this, and what's more: it's a self portrait!
Alice Neal is a good guess, but alas wrong. Although this artist lived in America in the seventies, she is not American and moved back to her home country to teach at the beginning of the eighties.
I was thinking of Alice Neal as well...
No guesses in 15 hours... now this seems a though nut to crack!
1971
No not Joan Snyder.Snyder is American and still living today.
The artist we're looking for here, lived only a decade in NY.
She died a couple of years ago, more than 90 years old.
Also not Helen Frankenthaler.Frankenthaler was American, she died in 2011 at the age of 83.
June Leaf is American and as far as I can find out still alive at the age of 90! So no also wrong Geoffrey.
All right, it seems this is one of those "forgotten" female artists.But not completely, in 2014, the year of her death there was a big exhibition in MoMA.
another self portrait
and one more...
100 % correct Connie!Good job.
Did you know her?
No, I did not know Lassnig. I got the impression that she's better known in Europe so this was a chance to learn about another artist. I just followed your hints to her.
Never heard of her. thanks for introducing her.very good artist
Geoffrey wrote: "Never heard of her. thanks for introducing her.very good artist"I think so too!
Here's a link for a short but interesting article about her:
http://www.sothebys.com/content/sothe...
The themes of her paintings remind me of Frieda Kahlo.
Yes but whereas Kahlo's is about her physical pain and anguish, hers is masochism
True. However Kahlo also had emotional pain with her husband who was a womanizer in addition to the physical pain after her accident. I was especially thinking of the first painting that Dirk posted with the arrow.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.