Feminist art is a highly significant movement consisting of the accomplishments and determination of feminists creating artwork symbolizing women's experiences in the world. Feminist art began in the 1960s and continued for 10 years afterwards. This movement defines the efforts of women, and for the recognition of their hard work. However, feminist artwork is still being addressed today. Artists and philosophers still create female art to state different messages. For example, females being victims of abuse or abuse of power, being set at lower standards, and so forth.
Nancy Spero is a pioneer of feminist art. She began her work in 1961 to relay her views and beliefs on feminism. Spero created illusion-type compositions to engage viewers while revealing her thoughts. She bases a lot of her pieces on the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust, and cruelties of the Vietnam War. One of her creations really caught my attention and drew my curiosity. Women Bomb is a very unique representation of feminist renderings. The painting has a single woman figure with multiple women reaching out into an ovary form. The breasts and vagina on the woman make it obvious of the gender and the meaning behind it.
I believe the remaining women blooming from the rest defines women being as "one." This could perhaps reveal women build the same strength, mentally. A message to further comfort women no matter what the circumstance: hope is there. Another aspect that shouts, "feminism" is the shape of the composition. The form creates female organs, ovaries. I think this is the most powerful and important part to the art piece. Overall, I actually found this angle quite interesting through the feminist movement and to be one of my favorites.
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