Mucha with art friends
Central Gallery - Prague ,Czech Republic
While in Prague, I got to spend some quality time with dear friends, among them, was my amazing artist friends Monair Hyman, and Theodora Dea, we went together to an exhibition by Alfons Mucha. It was both enlightening and beautiful to see his art. It made me think of how much we have yet to do for equality in the art world. It is so easy to find exhibitions of great male artists, and whole museums and collections of them. But for women artists is a whole new story, one has to dig deep and rarely can one find more than a few artworks in a large museums collection (and that is only on the occasions when the museums hold anything all).
I am dedicated to ask of staff at museums as to whether they have any women artists in exhibit, and also if they have them as part of their permanent collection. I am mostly used to the answer being no. But that doesn’t dissuade me from asking the question, the answer is often no, especially with women before the 1900s.
Women have in the past faced so many limitations to develop an art practice. Their art has been ignored, relegated and at times also attributed to men. We continue to know history only from the side of men, and that also applies to art history. There is so much development in this area, but there is no art training that focuses solely on women artists, in the way that art has been taught over the centuries using as reference only male artists. I want to be part of this change by bringing awareness to this and by encouraging people to question, to engage and to demand a change in all this.
I love seeing more and more women being vocal about their life experiences, it is important and necessary. If we are to change things we must know how people are living and what is affecting their livelihood, as well as those aspects of their lives that are supporting them and carrying them forward allowing to be their most wonderful and true self.
