a look at the Subversive paintings of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun—and the One Gender-Bending Portrait That Has stored Historians Guessing
In her new ebook, Twelve paintings , student Tal Sterngast explores Berlin's Gemäldegalerie, which is conventional for a great assortment of European artwork. She lands on twelve artwork from the collection and investigates the story at the back of them through crucial questions of these days. in this chapter, called "The Creativity of women," Sterngast looks at the legacy of trendy French portraitist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, probably the most few ladies artists within the Berlin state collection, asking what paradoxes exist inside art it's made by way of women. Born in 1755 in Paris to a painter and a hairdresser, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun performed success in France and Europe in opposition t the norms of the time all the way through probably the most turbulent periods in European historical past. Her father, who identified the daughter's ability and fervour early on, died when she became 12. In her feminist essay "Why Have There Been No brilliant women Ar