10 Feminist Female Artists You Should Know

Lessons from painters lost in the past

1. Black Iris III by Georgia O’Keeffe (1926)
2. The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago (1979)
3. Philip Golub Reclining (1971)
4. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning (1943)
5. Judith slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi (1612)
6. The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo (1939)
7. The Giantess by Leonora Carrington (1917)
8. Celestial Pablum by Remedios Varo Uranga
9. The Last Drop by Judith Leyster (1639)
10.Relache by Toyen (1943)

1. Black Iris III by Georgia O’Keeffe (1926)

Irises — the first reference that might come to your mind is Van Gogh’s painting Irises, which he painted while admitted to a mental asylum in Saint Remy.

But irises have a special significance in Christianity. They are associated with the Passion of Christ (the week of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection), probably because the flower blooms in spring around Easter.

At first glance, if we see the image without knowing the name of the painting, we might not be able to predict it as a picture of flowers.

The microscopic details of the flower and its curvy petals are visible to the naked eye.