El taller de Artemisia

To see you have to look. Until now, in the history of painting that we have been told, women played a minor role: they are just muses, mere objects to be captured on the canvas. Thus, the great women who practiced as artists in their own right are barely mentioned in a footnote, and their figures were cornered by those of their male colleagues. We have heard of Caravaggio and Monet, but even today, names like Berthe Morisot or Remedios Varo are not known by the general public. In El taller de Artemisia, Sandra Ferrer, an author specializing in women's history, invites us to discover the life and work of some of the best painters of the last five centuries. We will travel with Sofonisba Anguissola, lady of Queen Elizabeth of Valois and author of the most famous portrait of the Prudent King. We will learn about the traumatic experience of Artemisia Gentileschi, who, raped and humiliated by a society that did not believe her testimony, painted bold baroque paintings from an almost feminist perspective. We will go through the great styles of the French 19th century by the hand of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Rosa Bonheur and Berthe Morisot, and we will immerse ourselves in the whirlwind of the avant-garde and modernity together with Paula Modersohn-Becker, Maruja Mallo, Tamara Lempicka, Remedios Varo and Frida Kahlo, among other great artists. Until now, a veil has covered the names of women painters: the time has come to lift it and tell their story. Just as Virginia Woolf claimed her own room for female writers, Sandra Ferrer claims her own space for female painters in the history of art.