Female Pioneers at Work

28.03.2022 | Eléonore Besse

Pioneers: Artists in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties

During the interwar period, Paris was seen as a place of cultural, artistic and sexual liberty, a... Read more

Gender Genres

20.11.2020 | Sibylle Vabre

The Representation of the Nude: Between Affirmation and Subversion

In academic art education as it was organised until the 19th century, the representation of nude ... Read more

In the school curriculum

06.11.2020 | Nina Meisel

Foreign Artists in Paris in the Early 20th Century

At the turn of the 20th century, the Paris of the Third Republic had not yet ceded its place as t... Read more

Gender Genres

23.10.2020 | Nina Meisel

Still Life : stylistic exercise ou artwork?

Still life had its golden age in the 17th century, notably in northern Europe with the paintings ... Read more

Major Questions in Art History

09.10.2020 | Sibylle Vabre

Photography, a women’s story?

At the time of its invention, in 1839, photography was seen as a young medium with democratic goa... Read more

Major Questions in Art History

25.09.2020 | Nina Meisel

Healing Genius: Women Artists and Psychiatry

Madness, hysteria (comes from the word uterus): these disorders are stereotypically labelled as f... Read more

Feminisms and Other Engagements

24.07.2020 | Nina Meisel

Rewriting Memories and Denouncing History: Postcolonial Art

Ideological and political struggles and art often converge and fuel one another, offering each vi... Read more

In the school curriculum

10.07.2020 | Nina Meisel

1937: The Year for Women Artists in Paris

The inter-war period was a promising environment for the promotion of women on the cultural scene... Read more

In the school curriculum

26.06.2020 | Julie Sabau

Art in Movement: Women Pioneers of Video Art

Before becoming a full-fledged medium, video was intrinsically linked to television. It wasn’t un... Read more

Gender Genres

19.06.2020 | Nina Meisel

Genre Scenes and Portraiture: Representing Childhood

The emergence of bourgeois society in the nineteenth century and its quest for social expression ... Read more

Major Questions in Art History

12.06.2020 | Nina Meisel

Sculpture: An Art Without Women?

Camille Claudel (1864-1943) appears to be the embodiment of French female sculptors, yet she was ... Read more

In the school curriculum

05.06.2020 | Julie Sabau

Hand, Eye, Camera: Female Photographers in Paris Between the Wars

In the wake of the First World War many women took up photography. Paris, centre of the avant-gar... Read more

Major Questions in Art History

29.05.2020 | Nina Meisel

Artist Couples: For Better or For Worse?

In the history of art, many artist couples have made their mark, such as Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-1... Read more

Feminisms and Other Engagements

15.05.2020 | Anaïs Roesch

Women Artists and Environmental Issues

Nature has long been a source of inspiration and the subject of representation for artists. Howev... Read more

Major Questions in Art History

08.05.2020 | Nina Meisel

Abstraction: A Man’s Affair?

Abstraction was the artistic revolution of the 20th century. Influenced by the development of qua... Read more

In the school curriculum

01.05.2020 | Julie Sabau

Women Surrealist Artists

The Surrealist group formed in Paris in 1924 around André Breton. Published that same year, the S... Read more

Female Pioneers at Work

24.04.2020 | Pauline Créteur

Female Artists Take Over Parisian Transport

Since its creation at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Parisian metro has welcomed art... Read more

Major Questions in Art History

15.04.2020 | Nina Meisel

Female artists, the great forgotten ones in art history?

The place and importance of female artists in art history is still not self-evident for everyone.... Read more