Week 4 "Why have there been no great women artists?"
Throughout the reading, Linda Nochlin provides many examples as to how women have not had equal opportunities as men when it comes to art. The male viewpoint was automatically accepted to be the viewpoint of art history. This is due to white men being the ones who were allowed opportunities within art. Men would be the ones in leadership positions and commissioned other white men for art. Women were not given the same opportunities, making it white men who write the art history books about other white men. All the accomplishments that would make a great artist, commissions and books written of them, were all in the accessible by men but not women. This provided a distorted view on who were great artists, which then did not give women a chance to be included in the topic. Nochlin further talks about how it is not just a single perspective that needs to be changed, but also the public which should re-examine how they can make it so that everyone has the ability to reach greatness. T...