We shouldn’t forget that back in the days of the Old Masters women were legally only allowed to be muses and/or models but never artists in their own right. Even their poses are clearly steered towards a male audience and were generally showing the women as erotic, bewitching and available creatures with the single purpose to please men.

Thank you for this earring, darling.

Don't mess with me 

On the inside I scream 

This series is called “Women in Obscurity” because a lot of women are not given the attention and respect they deserve. These drawings show how undererstimated and almost invisible a lot of women nowadays still are, their help and services taken for granted, their love and talent not appreciated the way it absolutely should be.

Women in Obscurity XIV

This series is called “Women in Obscurity” because a lot of women are not given the attention and respect they deserve. These drawings show how undererstimated and almost invisible a lot of women nowadays still are, their help and services taken for granted, their love and talent not appreciated the way it absolutely should be. 

Women in Obscurity XIII

When the artist draws movie stars she will regularly use images from the past because she has the impression that back then women were still perceived as more glamorous and mysterious. This second topic is also linked to the recent Me Too movement and the fact that it is still necessary even for strong, established and successful women to fight for their rights all over the world. A fact, which can basically be applied to every single profession. It’s one of the big issues that our generation has to deal with. Shockingly many societies all over the world keep on struggling with the question of equal rights, and female artists continue being extremely underrepresented in most of the museums and galleries. The prices paid for their works are only a fraction of the ones paid for those of their male counterparts. High time to change this! 

Voulez-vous... ?

No, I don't cook.

We shouldn’t forget that back in the days of the Old Masters women were legally only allowed to be muses and/or models but never artists in their own right. Even their poses are clearly steered towards a male audience and were generally showing the women as erotic, bewitching and available creatures with the single purpose to please men. 

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