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⁠Paula Rego (26 January 1935-) is a Portuguese/British artist who is renowned for her folk and storybook inspired surreal and often grotesque paintings, prints and pastel work.⁠
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Helen Frankenthaler was an American Abstract Expressionist painter whose career spread six decades. She was eminent among the postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited with playing a significant role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Colour Field painting. Her frequent experimentation, working in a wide range of media from ceramics, sculpture, tapestry and to printmaking, has had a profound effect on American contemporary art.⁠
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Frankenthaler gained fame through the invention of her colour-stain technique, where she appleid thin washes of paint to an unprimed canvas - most notably in hericonic 1952 work “Mountains and Sea” (pictured here).⁠
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Frankenthaler’s work and career is explored within @phaidonsnaps new book ‘Great Women Artists’. We are thrilled to be co-hosting an event in collaboration with @phaidonsnaps on November 7th, and further details about the event can be found through our website.⁠
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Image: “Mountains and Sea” 1952. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.⁠
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⁠On the 80th anniversary of her death, today we explore the life and works of Gwen John (22 June 1876 - 18 September 1939). John was a welsh artist who resided in France for much of her life. John’s known oeuvre is small in both number and stature, with only 158 known oil paintings, which are rarely larger than 24 inches in height or width.⁠
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This 1902 self-portrait from early in her career encapsulates the isolation and melancholy often apparent within John work and reflective of her personal life.⁠
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During her lifetime Gwen John was often overshadowed by her brother Augustus John and her lover Auguste Rodin, however, her reputation as grown since her death. The subtlety and quiet aura of Gwen’s work stands in great contrast to her brother Augustus’ vibrant and assertive work and he accurately predicted, that despite his popularity and renown in their lifetime: ‘In fifty years’ time I will be known as the brother of Gwen John.’⁠
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John's work and career is featured within @phaidonsnaps new book 'Great Women Artists'. On November 7th @awitalondon is co-hosting an event with @phaidonsnaps celebrating this work, more details can be found through our website.⁠
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Image: 'Self-Portrait', 1902. Tate.⁠
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⁠Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) was one of two female founding members of the @royalacademyarts in 1768 with Mary Moser. Kauffmann painted mainly portraits and landscapes, identifying as a history painter, a genre that was viewed as central to the Academy at the time. Between 1769 and 1782 Kauffmann exhibited annually at the Academy.⁠
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From 1781, Kauffmann lived in Rome until her death 25 years later. As a sign of her artistic importance at the time, her grand funeral involved a procession with two of her best pictures following her to her tomb.⁠
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Kauffmann's work and career is highlighted within @phaidonsnaps forthcoming work ‘Great Women Artists’. We are thrilled to be co-hosting an event in collaboration with @phaidonsnaps on November 7th; further details about the event can be found through our website.⁠
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Image: 'Venus convinces Helen to hear Paris', circa 1790, Hermitage Museum⁠
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★ Membership Spotlight ★⁠⠀
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This week, we spoke to AWITA member Lyndsey Ingram (@lyndsey_ingram).⁠⠀
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⁠'I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before dissappearing' Sonia Delaunay.⁠
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Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was a French artist who cofounded the Orphism art movement, focused on geometry, pure abstraction and bright colour, with her husband. Delaunay was the first living woman to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, underlining her importance within the Parisian Avant-Garde.⁠
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Delaunay’s work was not confined to painting, illustrating the cover of vogue; opening a interiors and fashion boutique in 1918; designing sets and costumes for plays and films among other things.⁠
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Delaunay's work and career is explored within @phaidonsnaps work ‘Great Women Artists’. We are thrilled to be co-hosting an event in collaboration with @phaidonsnaps on November 7th, and further details about the event can be found through our website.⁠
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Image: 'Yellow Nude', 1908, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes⁠
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