On Feminism: Robin Fjelstad

Feminist Art (Art or Pornography)

Part of the feminist art movement has a goal to bring more visibility to women in the area of art history. I fully support the agenda of this area of “the movement”. Female artists’ achievements and works have been overlooked and undervalued in recorded history and I believe that every effort should be made to rectify the injustice that has befallen these artists.  Female artists today proclaim that they simply want to produce art and have the same recognition that is given to white male artists, to have their works displayed alongside that of the male artist’s works in galleries and shows and to be taken seriously as artists. I also support this area of the “movement”.

There are other areas of the “feminist art movement” however, that I have a real problem with. One of these areas is the creation of “artwork” by feminist artists that is vulgar and pornographic. When white men produce images like those that I have seen produced by “feminist artists” it is called pornography and it is not on public display. I believe that this sort of female artist has hijacked what was intended as a crusade to get women artists the recognition they so richly deserve and have twisted it to meet a perverted agenda.  These women shout for equality and recognition, but their “art” is not of the type and caliber that is produced and displayed by other female artists or even their male counterparts. These images are focused on the female form displayed in graphic and crude arrangements and are obscene. I may not have seen enough art produced by male artists, but if all the work produced by men were phallic shaped images in some medium or other the credibility of these “artists” would suffer as badly as that of the feminist artist.

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