Women in art, both as a compositional motif and as creators, is an expansive field in the history of art. Societal and cultural perceptions of women often shape their representation—from objects of ...

Womanly power was a recurring theme of her work, expressed in idiosyncratic sculpture and paintings that did not align with prevailing trends. By William Grimes June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose ...

Representing desire, ideal beauty, original sin and maternal fertility, the female nude is ubiquitous in the history of art. First emerging as a standard of ideal beauty in the ancient world, the ...

Born into a family of artists, some may say that becoming an artist was always on the cards for Daniel Maidman. For sure he appreciates the female form, you just have to look below or peruse his ...