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The group wore gorilla costumes, to hide their identity and avoid consequences for speaking against powerful institutions. The newly opened Met gallery that featured only 13 women out of 169 artists, inspired the creation of the Guerrilla Girls, a movement that demanded more space for women artists in museums. Performance Art by Marina Abramovic via Aesthetica Magazineĭuring the era of Regains in the 1980s America, feminist artists draw their inspiration from psychoanalysis and postmodern theory. Together with art historian, Ann Sutherland Harris, Linda Nochlin prepared “ Women Artists: 1550-1950” an exhibition of works made by female artists of the era. One such pioneering essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” by Linda Nochlin, showed how various social conditions prevented female artists from reaching the fame and the glory of their equally talented male colleagues. Simultaneously, many art critics contributed to the art movement by writing essays that focused on the underrepresentation of women in the art sector. American feminist artists organized protests in front of famous New York museums such as Whitney and The Museum of Modern Art, demanding and eventually succeeding in raising the percentage of women artists in the museum collections. They created women’s art organizations like Art Workers Coalition, Women Artists in Revolution and others, that demanded more representation for women in galleries and museums. In the 1970s women artists begun to establish their own spaces where they could work independently from men. A conversation on ‘Feminist Art’ – June 24th, 6.30pm (BST) 1970s and the Rise of Feminist Photography, Video, Performance and Body Art