Early Women Masters East & West

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1942 Self Portrait with Monkey & Parrot by Mexican artist, FRIDA KAHLO(b. Coyoacán, Mexico, 1907)Welcome!! to EARLY WOMEN MASTERS EAST & WESTIncludes Ancient to Early Modernism — Creative Women in Art History,Women in Music, Poetry & Ancient Greek Myth, Women Taoist Teachers (see below) & Zen MastersANCIENT CHINESE TAOISM — THE FEMININE TAOwith Notes & Commentary by Kari Hohne, Ursula K. Le Guin & others. _____ _____ _____Highly Revered Poem below by the Taoist Master,Immortal Sister Sun Bu-er (12th c.)_____ _____ _____"The relic from before birthEnters one's heart one day.Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel,Be as gentle as if you were caressing an infant.The gate of earth should be shut tight,The portals of heaven should be first opened.Wash the yellow sprouts clean, And atop the mountain is thunder shaking the earth."TAO: GUEST OR HOST?Illustrated with a sculpture by Emma Stebbins (1815-1882)___ ___ ___Cat illustrated below left is by MARY FEDDEN (1915-2012).More early 20th century, women artists at this site include: DADA with Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943), illustrated above-right___ ___ ___ ___ ___Celebrate the magnificent colorful abstractions of SONIA DELAUNAY (1885-1979, photo left)and the amazing still lifes and folk paintings of MARY FEDDEN (1915-2012, photo right) See: NATURAL ABSTRACTION in the art of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)(notes on O'Keeffe and Zen Buddhism: her 1930's photo above right)EMILY DICKINSON'S POETRY — A NATURE MYSTICISM LABYRINTH Explore a clickable, 4-circuit-meander and multi-page labyrinth, comprised of 32 mystic poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), and each combining nature spirituality with travel imagery. The site includes related commentary adapted from ED's own poems and letters, and see at this site a guide to Emily Dickinson's HERBARIUM, along with links to ONLINE botanical illustrations. The labyrinth includes related commentary adapted from ED's own writings, with links to related slideshows and A GARDEN 'TIS...WHAT?For Dickinson offsite at Wordpress: have a look also at: DICKINSONGS—a tribute to Emily Dickinson's Philosophy of the Small. Young Dickinson photo illustrated right: detail from a daguerreotype. Dickinson says: "I dwell in Possibility — a fairer House than Prose — more numerous of Windows — superior for Doors —" MINNEHAHA, 1868, sculpture by Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907), her photo right, c.1870."Like many American sculptors of the nineteenth century, Lewis, an artist of African-American & Chippewa (Ojibwa) ancestry, worked in Rome. Her multiracial identity and her gender were formative in her selection of subjects. In addition to pieces addressing abolition and emancipation, between 1866 and 1872 she completed a series of marble sculptures on the popular theme of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, drawn from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem: 'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855)." Quote from the Edmonia Lewis webpage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.WOMEN & THE ARTSSee: WOMEN ARTISTS AT THE EASEL - Self-Portraits (1540-1980)In 1548, the Flemish Renaissance painter Caterina van Hemessen (b.1528)created the first self-portrait of any artist, depicted with brush and palette, working at an easel. Her achievement is celebrated here with a slideshow including 23 additional self portraits by great women artists, spanning more than 400 years and 12 countries of origin. MORE WOMEN ARTISTS' SELF PORTRAITSAbove painted 1905: Self Portrait, Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), mother of the great, American playwright, poet & novelist, Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) See also at this site: WOMEN ARTISTS SELF PORTRAITS by:Caterina Van Hemessen (1548) | Sofonisba Anguissola (1556) |Artemisia Gentileschi (1639)|Judith Leyser (1630's) |Elisabetta Sirani (1660) |Anna Waser (1691) |Angelica Kauffman (1781) |Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1782) |Anne Vallayer-Coster (1783) |Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1785) |Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1790) |Marie-Victoire Lemoine (ca. 1796) |Marie Ellenrieder (1819) |Anna Bilinska Bohdanowicz (b. 1857, painting: 1887) |Rosa Bonheur (1857) |Mary Cassatt (1876) |Berthe Morisot (1885) |Alice Pike Barney (1905) |Zinaida Serebriakova (1907) |Alice Bailly (1917) |Suzanne Valadon (1937) |Frida Kahlo (1941) |Bridget Riley (1965) |Alice Neel (1980)In addition, a fascinating slideshow of photos of and works by the Mexican artist,FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954), focusing entirely on her famous self portraits.1782 SELF PORTRAIT (detail) by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) (National Gallery, London) ISABEL BISHOP (1902–1988) bequeaths her own ideas about her paintings and drawings in a couple of personal essays dating back to 1953 and there, she states the following (republished in ISABEL BISHOP: Prints & Drawings, Brooklyn Museum, 1964):"Genre drawings are never heroic, never the 'grand manner,' and never large. Also they are never 'compositions.' [...] In this particular kind of artistic expression, the subject must seem unmanipulated — as though a piece of life had been sneaked up on, seized and somehow became art, without anything having been done to it. This is the way it seems which is part of the content."Isabel Bishop, 1957See Bishop's "PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICE GIRL," detail from the drawing shown right, created with pencil, red ink, and wash white heightening on paper—the date unknown.And regards the famous painting, TWO GIRLS, Isabel Bishop had two acquaintances from the Union Square area [in New York City], and who agreed to pose for the picture, so that Bishop could capture the interaction of the two figures. The work took more than a year to complete, and it was painted with oil and tempera. Additional notes on Isabel Bishop, that is, her life, education and her art works are available at Wikipedia, along with an extensive listing of other great 19th-20th c. Women Artists. Above: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, with HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)31 Beautiful Paintings Illustrated — above left: Frankenthaler's "A LITTLE ZEN" (1970)SELF PORTRAIT by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), gouache & watercolor, 1880, with Cassatt PhotoIllustrations Above: SAPPHO reading a Greek manuscript (possibly her own poetry) and right, Greeksculpture of the mother of DEMETER, Rhea, with bird crown, Crete ca. 1200 BCE.ANCIENT GREEK ARTS & MYTHOLOGYANCIENT GREEK HYMN TO DEMETER & PERSEPHONE Bibliography | *Sappho or another female author for the Hymn?Cast of Characters | Offsite at Wordpress: Journeys with Demeter & Plato See SAPPHO'S WORD: Selected word-puzzles, epithets and imagistic ideas:Sappho's inspirational fragments as cited by ancient authors.The 25 Episodes of the HYMN TO DEMETER & PERSEPHONEAncient Greek Transliteration and Translation: Citations from feminist& Other Commentary, Art & Photo Illustrations, Glossary, see below by Line Number(Illustration above: Minoan Priestess with ancient Greek sacred knot, see Lines 33-50)Medieval & Renaissance Music CDsWomen composers, music by Kassia (Gregorian), Hildegard of Bingen, Trobairitz (Medieval Women Troubadours), Chansons de Femme, performed by Sinfonye, Anonymous 4, Sequentia, Circle Dances, Christine de Pisan, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, the Black Madonna, Bridget of IrelandEmily Dickinson Feminist EssaysBrilliant, early feminist essays on Emily Dickinson's life, letters & poetry (pub. 1886-1915) by: (1) Emily Fowler Ford, (2) Ella Gilbert Ives, (3) Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, (4) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (5) Susan Huntington Dickinson, (6) Lilian Whiting, (7) Martha Dickinson Bianchi (More on) FOLLOWING THE WAY OF TAOPicturing Tao & Picturing I Ching (Enigmatic & Nature Slideshows)THE WAY OF ENSŌ (Enigmatic Circles!! Slideshow) ____ ____ ____See also: SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY FOR WOMEN, with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)____ ____ ____Crookback: Women Masters in the Chuang-tzuMagical Calligraphy of Tokai OkonImmortal Sister Sun Bu-er (Taoist Poetry & Historical Legend)Uncarved WOOD (Nature Mysticism with Photography)Zen Master Konin Melissa Cardenas (with Gassho hand gesture of gratitude)WOMEN, ZEN & ASIAN ARTSWHAT IS ZEN? According to the Soto Zen Buddhist Association: "Zen evolved from the teachings of the historical Buddha who lived 2500 years ago in India.These teachings spread to China some six hundred years later. Zen (called Ch’an in China)developed in Mahayana Buddhist monasteries in the 7th Century. Inspired in part by the Chinese practice of the TAO, Ch’an/Zen was characterized byspontaneity and naturalness." See also NATURAL SOUNDS (Idiophonics, with sound effects)in Early Japanese Women's Poetry (includes separate BIBLIOGRAPHY)Side Panels: Self Portraitsby MAYUMI ODA (b. 1941) —Japanese Buddhist artist often called the "Matisse of Japan"and specializing in goddesses.See also Mayumi Oda's amazing Goddesses of Compassionlinked below....See goddesses KUAN YIN & TARA (beautiful illustrations by MAYUMI ODA).From a recent talk by Mayumi Oda, she says: "Give us vision, not just one vision, but many visions, and I ask the goddess, give me vision for her."See also MT. FUJI's Japanese SHINTO Goddesses & 12c. waka poetry by Princess SHIKISHI JAPANESE JOMON POTTERY (Women's Prehistoric Ceramics —citations, images, links, sources or click illustration left)___ ___ ___Julia V. Nakamura's Japanese TeaAudrey Yoshiko Seo's GardensChiyo-ni's Haiku Poetry An Illustrated SHOBOGENZO ZEN Studies of the Wayby Dogen Zenji (Gender-Inclusive), Extensive Bibliography, Citations —also Dogen's ECOSPIRITUALITYwith ink drawingsBELL SOUNDS AS WISDOM(in Dogen's Zen with sound effects) ABLUTIONSKeiko Abe Marimba music with Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) her hand-shaped bowl withincised Zen waka poetry, left —see also her Incredible Edibles!!

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