Resumen de Women in Art, a Politically Unbalanced Relationship

Rosa Martínez

• The work of numerous female artists is today an example of the desire of women to move out of the domestic domain and occupy territories historically forbidden to them, such as art and politics.

  Figures such as the Egyptian Ghada Amer show that it is possible to overcome the difficulties for a woman to break down cultural and gender frontiers. The advances achieved in the 20th century clearly reveal that sexual difference is a social and not a biological construct. In this respect, the work of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Mona Hatoum or Lygia Clark is fundamental to understand the evolution of the role of women in the artistic panorama. Today, it is necessary to reject the label of “female art” and overcome the formalism of modernity to put forward new dynamics of gender, race and class to live in a more balanced and healthy world.