With Gender Perspective

Esther Tauroni,

When the writer and Art Historian Esther Tauroni  asked me if she could include a chapter of my art in her new book, I couldn't deny it.

Now that I´ve read the book I feel thrilled and honored because she not only  describes  with detail my  way of painting, but also  my work as a symbol in the 21^st Century of hope for all the forgotten women artists in history.

Compiling the work and  narrating  the history of well known artists, she tells stories of those genius Tintoretto, Goya, Jacques Louis David, Degas,  Gustave Moreau and  René Magritte who  used women as models as a  simple and unique  role, although many of them were also artists but  behind husbands or besides fathers. Creating  this  dynamic and easy to read book, a well organized project in 19 chapters that go from the XVI through the  XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX  centuries to our actual moment, she metaphorically claims justice  for women "With Gender Perspective".

She mentions as an exception  the well known  20^th Century artist  Fernando Botero who as a feminist  exalts women big and fat.

The book also talks about experiences of a few well known women artists, a good example is the XIX century Maria Cosway, where she portrays  herself  with a very upset face as if complaining about the role of the "house cleaning, cooking house wife".
 

Women had to fight twice as hard as men, defying society. There is the work of Hannah Glukstein,  but then we also had Ophelia Camille Claudel,  the victim of John Everest Millais who committed suicide.

And many others..