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The Work of Artemisia Gentileschi Renaissance Artist and why she is considered an Early Feminist

The Work of Artemisia Gentileschi Renaissance Artist and why she is considered an Early Feminist

Introduction the first paragraph is the introduction—it is not proceeded by a header with that term

Artemisia Gentileschi, the daughter of a renowned Roman artist, Orazio Gentileschi, was born in 1593 and rose to be among the first female artists to be recognized in post-Renaissance art, the field that was mostly dominated by men (Bal, 2006). In times where female painters were only restricted to imitative poises and portrait painting, Artemisia became the first woman to make paintings of major religious and historical scenarios. She painted many artistic works of strong women who underwent so much pain and suffering from the bible and myth (Bal, 2006). Her best-known painting is Judith Slaying Holofernes which depicts the beheading of Holofernes, a scene of blood-letting and horrific struggle. Today, Artemisia Gentileschi is considered one of the most expressionist and progressive painters of her era (Locker, 2015). This analysis seeks to explore her position in the industry in the seventeenth century and how her work was used to progress feministic themes sponsoring a revision of societal perceptions for the role of women. , this introduction does not fit the assigned final project. You are not asked to write about an artist; you are asked to write about a current controversy and explain and analyze that with documents and artifacts we study in the humanities; here, with the works and the responses to her work and her person, the artist Gentileschi.

You first and foremost have to identify a current controversy in which feminist would argue one side and others oppose that stance. Our current election campaign would be perfect as such controversy but there are other issues like lower pay and such. The thesis at the end of your introduction has to state a claim that shows that and why the current controversy can be explained by looking into the past, into the life of one female artist

The work of Artemisia Gentileschi

Being among the first female artists to be successful in the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi brought a unique perspective and an electric feel of narrative drama that humanized and celebrated strong female characters to her artistic work. Despite the discriminative social settings that characterized the life of women in the seventeenth century, she did her artistic engagements without objectifying the need to make profit from her creations. Discovered again by feminist art historians in the last few decades, she has inspired many books, both popular and scholarly, as well as a number of films (Locker, 2015). She trained in the workshop of her father and earned acclaim through the completion of her first signed artistic work, a sensitive rendering of Susanna and the Elders. Her style had some similarity to that of her father, but her paintings stood out due to their theatricality, that is the raw emotional vividness of some figures daringly disposed. An analysis of her work brings out her profile as a person who utilized painting as a platform to describe her experiences in life.

As Conn (2015) explores, Artemisia Gentileschi utilized her creativity and skills in artwork to challenge the expectations of fellow male artists in the seventeenth century. This she was able to accomplish despite her turbulent childhood in which she became a victim of rape and trial. In relation to her contributions in the feministic movement, it can be said that her work was characterized as ideal for specific themes that were publicized by feminism movements. In this context, Artemisia Gentileschi did not shift her concentration in art as a skill to help promote specific themes but continued to improve her professionalism. Additionally, while artistic works were used in specific settings to represent specific aspects of the social life that dominated the era, Gentileschi designed her message to bring out unique contrasts with other artists while maintaining relevance over a wider period of time (Conn, 2015). This perhaps explains the value of her artwork in contemporary artistic settings. While a short summary of her life and work may be very helpful for the development of your paper, do not make it the focus of your paper.

To comprehensively bring out how Artemisia Gentileschi’s work represents an allegory of its own kind, there is need to highlight a number of her work. As explored by Conn (2015), the La Pittura painting is a depiction of the female image in an era that was dominated by masculine artistic themes. This is one of the paintings that pioneered a competitive front for artistic participants between men and women. In this context, the most unique aspect of her artwork is that she produced a masterpiece whose allegory could not be matched by male contemporary artists. Therefore, Conn (2015) establishes a conclusive inference that characterizes Artemisia’s artwork as unique and rare given the dominion that male artists had in the industry in the seventeenth century.

Her work is also unique in the sense that it focused on powerful heroines by capturing both their strengths and vulnerabilities, an aspect that is mostly attributed to her experience, considering that she was a victim of rape at the age of eighteen (Locker, 2015). Unlike other painters who chose to focus on the ideals of beauty as well as the bravery evoked by Judith, a Jewish heroine, she chose to focus on painting the biblical story’s grisly climax, coming up with a picture that is terrific (Bal, 2006). Virtue and violence and its accompanying catalog explore Artemisia’s painting in the context of the artist’s remarkable career as well as responses of Baroque artists and Renaissance to the story of Judith.

Why she is considered an Early Feminist that is not the question or topic. The question is how knowing about and studying the life and work of an early feminist can help us in explaining and analyzing the ongoing controversy regarding women’s rights

Like all women artists of the Renaissance, Gentileschi was forbidden to draw from naked or live, male model. Commissions for paintings from nobility and the church were expected to integrate characteristics such as tenebrism, naturalism and drama enacted by male artists. Within these restrictions of Renaissance art, female artists were thus forced to focus on less lucrative and prestigious genres like portraiture and still-life. But Artemisia Gentileschi changed this status quo by making paintings of biblical and mythological themes like her male peers thus making her one of the early feminist who fought for recognition of women by fighting for fair representation of women in the field of Renaissance art (Locker, 2015). While Daugherty (2015) utilizes the historical context to bring out Artemisia’s development as an artist, it is the depiction of her image as a feminist that is more significant.

Her experience when she was raped significantly influenced the nature or inspiration behind her works. Just like other feminists of her era, there were specific experiences that invoked their support for feministic themes. For her, it is these experiences coupled with the societal judgment of women in the seventeenth century that inspired most of her work. As mentioned above, a significant proportion of her work depicted strong women from myths and biblical references who suffered to achieve their objectives. In an era of great social injustices to women, Artemisia utilized these artistic depictions to communicate to women that anyone could also stand for the right reasons to support the right of women. Endres (2013) explores how Artemisia used the myth of Lucretia to propagate her messages. Lucretia is a myth of an ancient Roman woman who played a very important role in the roman government especially during the change of the Roman kingdom to Roman republic. This is a significant reflection of her work because she used the myth to connect her messages to what the society believed in and on the basis of which morals were built.

It is however important to draw the various elements beyond these inspirations that characterized her work. For example, Daugherty (2015) explores her potential on academic grounds by analyzing how she came up with her artwork as compared to her male counterparts. At a very early age, she produced a piece that was denied on the basis of her age. While this may be judged as her determination to establish herself as an artist, it does depict her intellect in understanding he environment around her and how she harnessed her potential to make a difference. Furthermore, having existed in a patriarchal society, women were not allowed to paint pictures that depicted political and religious values. This in itself limited Artemisia’s work to a specific line of thought that further justified her partial support for feministic ideologies.

There is also reason to believe that her profile as a strong advocate for rights for women influenced engagements that later pioneered significant societal freedom for women. Daugherty (2015) describes how Artemisia’s image was fabricated in the 20th century. Even after her death, her legacy remained to inspire women in advocating for their rights. While she may not have been outspoken in her visual depictions of her perspectives on feminist movements, she is directly involved in the propagation of themes between the 17th and 20th centuries. , all the information is important, but, what you are writing is a historical and biographical overview rather than a humanities paper. Here, the historical and biographical background can be addressed—briefly—in the first body paragraph; however, the paper has to focus on the current controversy that you explain and evaluate through the sources from the past. For that, your sources have to include primary sources from the past.

, if you would take any one of those topics I suggested above and evaluate that example through a study of the sources that we use in the study of humanities (here, the paintings and life of this artist), then you will be writing a successful humanities paper—by just writing about the person and, at the end, name some current cases, you are not USING the humanities to learn about the development. You do have a lot of the information you need—now is the time to rethink how you can use it.

Make sure not to write your final draft as “history summary”. Instead, focus on one current controversy and then use what you have found as sources FROM the past (not about the past) for your analysis.

Conclusion

Artemisia’s choice of subject matter and focus allowed her to effectively define her niche market in the field of Renaissance art and enabled her to secure a place in Renaissance art as well as recognition. It earned her the reputation of being one of the greatest artist of her time despite the obstacles that she faced together with other female artists during the period. While this evaluative report has strived to bring out specific pointers to Artemisia’s work as tools for feminist movements, it is her journey towards professional establishment that bears the greatest weight. Daugherty (2015) highlights that Artemisia fought violence, professional establishment and social limitation to become one of the celebrated female artist of the seventeenth century. This is well articulated in the 20th century during which significant recognition of her work and journey to professional establishment were appreciated.

References

Bal, M. (2006). The Artemisia files: Artemisia Gentileschi for feminists and other thinking people.the titles of publications (not of articles) have to be formatted as italics Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Conn, V. L. (2015). The Personal is the Political: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Revolutionary Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. Kaleidoscope, 8(1), 6.

Daugherty, B. (2015). Between Historical Truth and Story-Telling: The Twentieth-Century Fabrication of “Artemisia”.

Endres, A. L. (2013). Painting Lucretia: Fear and Desire: A Feminist Discourse on Representations by Artemisia Gentileschi and Tintoretto.

Locker, J. (2015). Artemisia Gentileschi: the language of painting. New Haven; London: Yale University Press.

For a humanities paper (or any academic paper, books cannot be the only sources; what you need are scholarly articles from peer reviewed journals.

First Draft		Total Points Pos.	15035	Total Points Ernd.	114
	Pts. Pos.	Pts. Ernd.	Comments
Introduction/Thesis: There is a clear and focused introduction.  The thesis is clear, original, and sophisticated.  The ideas embedded in the thesis are appropriate to the length of the assignment (for the proposal 2-3; draft 1, 5-7; final, 9-10).  Page count excludes title and reference pages).  The content provides quality (not padded, dull writing, repetitive or margin/enlarged font-cheating).  Effort and sensitivity to the study is evident.	35	15	You have started with a historical and biographical overview--that is not an introduction for the assigned paper. Provide the context in which you will analyze and discuss a current event through your research in the historical creations and writings.
Paragraphs: Paragraphs are composed around topics, which naturally and organically emerge from a complex, focused, and sophisticated thesis. Each paragraph explores one topic and one topic only. Topics directly relate TO the thesis and are not theses in and of themselves. The paragraph completely and fully develops and explains the topic and provides details, examples, illustrations, and quotations from research as well as from the primary texts. Topics and paragraphs rise above commonplace thinking and summary. Quoted material is used powerfully to support analytical points (and not as padding). There is a graceful transition to the next paragraph. The ideas explored are significant, substantive, and instructive. Ideas/topics support the overarching thesis so that the paper is a unified whole, and not a concatenation of appended mini-essays.	35	30	please see my comments in your paper
Grammar/Mechanics/Style: Grammar refers to the correct usage of Standard American English. Mechanics refers to idiomatic conventions (capitalization of proper nouns, spelling, and punctuation). Style refers to persuasiveness, sophistication, wit, and transcendant quality. Sentences should be varied in length and complexity without loss of clarity or precision of meaning. Style makes a paper a pleasure to read.	30	27	Review sentence structure, punctuation, and subject verb agreement. Always write in a formal tone and avoid colloquial
Format: APA format has been observed. Headers, margins (1" all around), alignment, double-spacing, Times New Roman font and 12 pt. font size are correct. Pagination is in the upper right of the page. Citations are scrupulously observed in-text and have a matching full reference on a reference page with hanging indents (also formatted correctly—double spaced in TNR 12 point font) Both in-text and full references are complete according to the APA style sheet.	25	22	Please review the APA requirements for in text citations and the reference page.
Writing for the Humanities: Composing for the humanities is "technical" in its own way. Students are to read broadly in philosophy, art, literature, political science, and history; and are to show that they can bridge conceptually across humanistic inquiry, innovate meanings that are not apparent at the surface of texts, locate controversies and conflicts that are worthy of researched exploration, and show depth and focus of contemplative thought and character in conducting work of this kind. Progress throughout these assignments is also valued.	25	20
You do have a lot of the information you need—now is the time to rethink how you can use it. Make sure not to write your final draft as “history summary”. Instead, focus on one current controversy and then use what you have found as sources FROM the past (not about the past) for your analysis.	150	114