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Titled for Yayoi Kusama, who is the cat's pyjamas.


fyeahfeministart: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Pink, 1973 I keep on going back and forth between origins of feminist art and more contemporary stuff. Heh. She did this for an American Institute of Graphic Arts exhibition about colour. Hers was the only entry for the colour pink. So basically de Bretteville handed out pieces of pink paper to friends and to women on the street, asking them to describe what the colour meant to them. As you can guess, the colour was associated with stereotypical depictions of “femininity”. This has implications for art and graphic design that incorporates the colour pink for advertisement towards aimed audiences. She arranged women’s answers in a quilt-like manner. Many feminist artists in the ’70s incorporated traditional devalued women’s art such as knitting and quilting into their work to shake up the divide between “high” art and “low” art, as well as to display the value of this type of art.  

fyeahfeministart:

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Pink, 1973

I keep on going back and forth between origins of feminist art and more contemporary stuff. Heh.

She did this for an American Institute of Graphic Arts exhibition about colour. Hers was the only entry for the colour pink. So basically de Bretteville handed out pieces of pink paper to friends and to women on the street, asking them to describe what the colour meant to them. As you can guess, the colour was associated with stereotypical depictions of “femininity”. This has implications for art and graphic design that incorporates the colour pink for advertisement towards aimed audiences. She arranged women’s answers in a quilt-like manner. Many feminist artists in the ’70s incorporated traditional devalued women’s art such as knitting and quilting into their work to shake up the divide between “high” art and “low” art, as well as to display the value of this type of art.  


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