FEMALE
IMAGE IN PAINTING.
There are
eternal themes in art. One of them is the theme of women. Each era has its own
ideal of a woman. The entire history of mankind is reflected in how people saw
a woman.
The female character
has always attracted the special attention of artists. By the portraits, we can
judge how a woman's appearance, her emotional makeup is influenced by social
events, fashion, literature, art and painting itself.
Let's list
only the directions in painting, where the female image was perfectly realized.
In order: realism, academicism, impressionism, symbolism, modernism,
expressionism, cubism, surrealism, postmodernism.
At the
moment there is a postulate that "... the tradition has exhausted itself and
that art must seek another form." It is not for us to judge how competent
this is. In our interpretation, the image of a woman takes on a completely
different sound. It seems to us that it is both modern, expressive and
generalizing.