Femmes peintres, de l’impressionnisme aux avant-gardes

Lecture presented by Léa Lefebvre

Impressionist, Neo-Impressionist, Fauvist, or Cubist, these women asserted themselves through perseverance and openly expressed their desire for emancipation. While art academies remained closed to women until late, they established themselves as artists through their own styles, raised their voices, and introduced new iconographies and imaginative worlds. Active participants in their time and in its various groups and movements, they were often overshadowed, silenced, or still lack visibility and recognition today. Their works trace alternative histories of modernity, enriching and complicating its narrative.