Judy Chicago is the
female-identified artist that I felt addressed a social issue. She
is known to be a major figure for the Feminist Act movement in 1970. I choose
this artist is because she went against the cultural norm during that time frame
and decided to do something different. She is known as a feminist artist
because she shows a different paradigm of the world. She wanted to express herself
through her art and showcase her as a woman. Chicago challenged male-dominated artwork
and wanted to go against the norm and construct artwork with the use of needlework and ceramic. Judy Chicago once said, “I
am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of
humankind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.”
She wants to critically address the cultural issue of how woman representation
can be shown through art.
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| Birth Tear/Tear, 1985 |
An iconic project
that I was fascinated to find was the Birth Project and her inspiration for
this piece. She wanted to show something real and different. Her art addresses
an iconographic void about the process of giving birth and she wanted to
showcase this subject matter. This project was a series of
embroidered pieces that illustrated the creation, birth, and fertility. She dismissed
the ordinary craft are created something with the use of needlework.
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| The Dinner Party, 1975–1979 |
Another iconic work is The Dinner Party where she created a table setting for different women in history. She represented over 1,000 fiction and historical women in this piece.
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