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Exhibit explores 150 years of female art history

(10 Feb 2022) LEAD IN: A new art exhibit in Denmark is exploring what it means to be a woman today, and how females have been depicted in Western art for the past 150 years - from the Modern Breakthrough to the most recent contemporary art. Organisers say, as concepts of women and femininity constantly change, there couldn't be a better time to look back over a century and a half of art history. STORY-LINE: The new exhibit, at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art on the outskirts of Copenhagen, features almost 120 works by Danish and international artists - some from the late 19th century, others from just last year. Denmark's most famous woman - Queen Margrethe II, who recently marked 50 years on the throne, attended the exhibit's opening on Friday (4th February 2022). The 82 year-old monarch is currently recovering from mild COVID-19 symptoms and has isolated herself in the Copenhagen palace where she lives, according to the Palace. The museum says the history of the women's movement began to leave its mark on the world of art around 1870. "We thought it was very important to look into the art historical side of things and give this perspective," explains senior curator Dorthe Juul Rugaard. "In this period of time, so many things (have) happened, so many new beginnings, and we are again beginning new positions and new discussions that are important for everyone in society." New ideas about women's emancipation and a new outlook on art meant more female artists got the opportunity to practice their art. "There were many, many very talented women artists, of course, but they were not able to follow their ambitions through often," says Juul Rugaard. "They were very, very often either sort of ignored, forgotten, or actively written out of our art history." Danish-Swedish artist duo Ditte Ejlerskov and EvaMarie Lindahl noticed what they believe to be a lack of women represented in art book publisher Taschen's monograph series. Of a hundred books the duo surveyed, only five were based on female artists. "We just took a book out, and we started counting," explains Lindahl. "And then we realised that out of a hundred books - and they're all monographs, so every book is of one artist - there were only five women. All the books, five women out of (a) hundred." That's why the duo created this work, called 'About: The Blank Pages', to address the issue. The two bookshelves are filled with some 181 books, 89 taken from Taschen's Basic Art series. The other 92 are monographic publications on women artists - such as Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi - created by the duo. But when visitors flick through the books, they'll find them all to contain blank, white pages. Pages to be filled by future art history writing, the duo say. "It's difficult for people to just mentioned ten women artists," says Ejlerskov. "And why are they not household names like Picasso and Andy Warhol and all of these? And it's simply because when these canons are made, then they are left out." The exhibit features this late 19th century work by Danish naturalist painter Sophie Holten of a young girl wearing a red jacket and standing by a gate. She looks out with a firm, independent gaze. Juul Rugaard says the work acts as a starting point for the exhibit's narrative. "This little girl is very unusual as a subject matter for this time," she explains. "Because kids, girls were also almost always sort of used as some kind of interior decoration in a composition, if you can say that, not as a subject matter for a portrait in their own right." "It's only the beginning, I think." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...