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Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by nature and artifacts of Mexico.

Posted byTamara AndersonDecember 12, 2021September 2, 2022Posted inArtistsTags:bisexual, painter, surrealistLeave a comment on Frida Kahlo

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer at the Folies Bergère, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist.

Posted byTamara AndersonFebruary 4, 2022September 2, 2022Posted inActivists, Artists, PerformersTags:Banana Skirt, Civil Rights Activist, Folies Bergère, French Resistance SpyLeave a comment on Josephine Baker

Tamara De Lempicka

Tamara De Lempinka was a famous Art Deco painter.

Posted byTamara AndersonNovember 13, 2021December 17, 2021Posted inArtistsTags:art deco, baroness with a brush, bisexual, painter, roaring twentiesLeave a comment on Tamara De Lempicka

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was an American artist best known for her Depression-era documentary photography.

Posted byTamara AndersonNovember 6, 2021November 14, 2021Posted inArtists, PhotographersTags:documentary, Great DepressionLeave a comment on Dorothea Lange

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer and artist who explored gender fluidity and a variety of performative personae in her work pre-World War II.

Posted byTamara AndersonOctober 31, 2021November 22, 2021Posted inArtists, PhotographersTags:gender bender, surrealistLeave a comment on Claude Cahun

Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage was a sculptor from the Harlem Renaissance best known for her 1939 World’s Fair scultpure called “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Posted byTamara AndersonOctober 29, 2021December 17, 2021Posted inArtistsTags:1939 World's Fair, Lift Every Voice and Sing, sculptureLeave a comment on Augusta Savage

Alma Thomas

Alma Thomas was an African American artist inspired by nature who came into her own style after she retired from a lifelong career of teaching art.

Posted byTamara AndersonOctober 21, 2021November 26, 2021Posted inArtistsTags:painter, teacherLeave a comment on Alma Thomas

Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist best known for her photomontage art work which linked female liberation with leftist political revolution.

Posted byTamara AndersonOctober 20, 2021December 17, 2021Posted inArtistsTags:androgyny, collage, dada, dadaist, New Woman, painter, photomontageLeave a comment on Hannah Höch

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffee was a major American artist known for her paintings of flowers, landscapes, and animal bones.

Posted byTamara AndersonOctober 16, 2021December 17, 2021Posted inArtistsTags:just flowers, landscapes, not vagina paintings, painterLeave a comment on Georgia O’Keeffe

Romaine Brooks

Romaine Brooks was an American painter who specialized in portraits. She is best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress.

Posted byTamara AndersonOctober 2, 2021November 22, 2021Posted inArtistsTags:painterLeave a comment on Romaine Brooks

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