Get Involved

Art Yarn are asking for people to produce knitted or crotched pieces to be part of a banner of yarn bombing for this years Sounds of the City festival in Salford.

http://artyarn.blogspot.com/2010/03/artyarn-invite-you-to-participate.html

Women in art

Celebrating national women's day on saturday city art gallery gave tours of the gallery focusing on Women in art. Picking out pieces throughout the gallery ranging from the 17th century to present day work, either work produced by women or portraits of women. Highlighting the different ways that women and men paint women, there is an obvious difference in style and technique, male painters of the the 18th century produced very stylised and decorative pieces often with the woman gazing dully into the distance. Whereas the female artists pieces show the subject starring directly at the viewer, the painting would have narrative and look naturalistic compared to the male produced pieces.

Often the paintings by women showed domestic scenes this was because it was unheard of for women to attend art classes or be part of the Royal Academy of Art so the work they produced would often be done at home.

Personally I preferred the work produced by women, it was more honest and interesting.