Tyra Kleen
Feb. 19th, 2025 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scripsiI want to gush a little about an art exhibition I saw yesterday. The Swedish artist Tyra Kleen died in 1951, leaving her artwork to the Swedish House of Nobility on the condition no one was to look at them for 50 years. So even if she was an important artist in her time, she was basically forgotten. There have been smaller exhibitions since then, but the one I saw yesterday is the most comprehensive. She was born in 1874 and lived in both Paris and Rome, as well as travelled extensively. She was a feminist and never married. Apart from her art, she also wrote books, and was an independent ethnographic researcher. She was also interested in the occult. I really love her art, and the exhibition was amazing.
It’s very picture heavy under the cut, with art related nudity and some horror motifs. The slightly wonky pictures are one I took myself yesterday.
It’s very picture heavy under the cut, with art related nudity and some horror motifs. The slightly wonky pictures are one I took myself yesterday.
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Date: 2025-02-19 09:09 pm (UTC)It makes you think sometimes how many amazing (female) artists must have existed out there whose work isn't widely known.
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Date: 2025-02-19 09:30 pm (UTC)I think there are many, but also that more and more light are put upon them. When I studied art history 30 years ago, Artemisia Gentileschi was talked about as a curisoity, but now she is seen as an importnat painter. I think there is a lot of research done, which more an dmore highlights female artisit and their contributions.
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Date: 2025-02-25 12:00 am (UTC)I wouldn't have thought Gentileschi had been little-known until so recently! But I guess it's in-pattern with how those things have been.
Looking at museums now (at least the ones in Germany and a few other European countries that I've visited as of late), the spectrum of artists featured really does seem to be widening and the texts in the exhibitions finally mention certain socio-political aspects I felt they'd been lacking until really only a few years ago.
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