Beyond Boundaries: Feminine FormsMain MenuBeyond Boundaries: Feminine FormsCuratorsSelect Works at PAFAPAFA Installation ImagesSelect Works at BMCBMC Installation ImagesProgrammingRelated ExhibitionsExhibition CatalogueMechella Yezernitskayaa79f660f1df80423beef6cbdfc74777f391c9c88Laurel McLaughlin7aaa77c13c8bd618817d93f2bac4722f1fb908fd
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12020-03-04T15:39:53+00:00Alicia Peakerfa9ce5cf6cff641fdb630497ef4559c09dbe185831Maria Pia Marrella, Figure of Angel, 1991. Charcoal on paper, 23 7/8 x 11 13/16 in. Bryn Mawr College, The William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection of Works by Women Artists, gift of Bill Scott, 2006.1.1332020-03-04T15:39:53+00:00Alicia Peakerfa9ce5cf6cff641fdb630497ef4559c09dbe1858
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12020-03-04T15:39:53+00:00musing1gallery2020-03-04T15:39:53+00:00 The “muse,” as a source of inspiration for visual artists, is almost unfailingly represented as a woman. Gendered and exoticized ideals of beauty, personified as goddesses, models, wives, or lovers, have been used to reinforce expectations for artists as male and subjects as female throughout the history of art. Artists in this constellation utilize natural forms such as skies, mountains, and swans as “feminine forms” of musing that defy the patriarchy’s proclivity to turn its gaze toward the female body.
