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12020-03-04T15:40:15+00:00Alicia Peakerfa9ce5cf6cff641fdb630497ef4559c09dbe185831Jacquelyn McBain, St. Joan of Arc Burned as a Witch and Herbalist, 1996. Oil on panel, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter, 2011.1.772020-03-04T15:40:15+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.
