Challenging Convention: Feminist Avant Garde & Its Impact

"Ironing Dream" 1975 by Karin Mack (photo credit Verbund Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna

During a trip to Vienna, the author visited Albertina museum’s “20 Years of the Verbund Collection,” highlighting the 70s Feminist Avant-Garde movement, where pioneering women used art to challenge traditional women’s roles. Artists like Birgit Jürgenssen and Penny Slinger used their bodies to critique societal norms. The exhibit celebrates the movement’s legacy of female empowerment and equality.

Munch On Some Mondrian This Lunchtime!

Dutch avant-garde artist, Piet Mondrian’s creations have had a huge impact on pop culture over the last 100 years. Mondrian’s iconic paintings, which he called “compositions”, are undoubtedly the best known representatives of Neo-Plasticism. Mondrian was a founding member of the Dutch art movement, De Stijl. The supporters of this movement used only the primary… Continue reading Munch On Some Mondrian This Lunchtime!

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