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"In the art world, there is a gaping gender imbalance when it comes to male and
female artists.
In the National Gallery of Australia, only 25% of the Australian art collection
is work by women.
This is far better than the international standard where roughly 90% of all
artworks exhibited in major collections are by men. The most expensive painting
by a female artist – Georgia O’Keeffe’s
Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 – does
not even rank among the 100 most expensive paintings ever sold.
Why is women’s art valued so much less than art by men?
Some economists have suggested the greater burden of child rearing and other
domestic duties means women have had fewer opportunities to succeed in the art
world.
Others have blamed the “quality” of women’s art. In 2013, German painter Georg
Baselitz said “Women don’t paint very well. It’s a fact. The market doesn’t
lie.”
We wanted to know: is work by women generally valued differently to work by men
because it is of a lower artistic quality, or is it just discrimination?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
