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A 5 page research paper that examines how the art world has traditionally regarded women artists. The writer examines various opinions and finds consensus that women have been held back from artistic greatness by the institutions and educational systems of society and male discrimination. However, opinions differ on whether or not there have actually been great women artists. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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on this subject, but even from the beginning of this century, it was clear to those who understood the art world that the principle cause for the lack of "greatness"
among female artists did not lie with their gender. Rather it was clear that the institutions of society systematically provided obstacles to the development of talent in women that were
not there for men. While opinions may differ on the particulars and how women artists should generally be evaluated, all agree on this significant point. For example, in a
book of essays on female artists that was first published in 1905, Leonce Benedite discussed the difficulties that women had in gaining any sort of art education in Europe as
the "regime of the Academies" followed that of the medieval guild system with restrictive rules that were not in "any degree profitable to womankind" (p. 168). Although Benedite felt
that nineteenth century artist Rosa Bonheur was the equal of any male artist, the editor of this turn of the century art book, Walter Sparrow sidestepped the issue by saying
that comparing male and female artistic endeavors would be like the classic case of comparing apples and oranges. Sparrow felt that women brought a different sensibility to art that made
it a class apart from male art (p. 11). He implied that there was a different kind of "greatness" for female art, a different standard, that derived from female expressive
qualities and was based on the special character of a womans situation. Around three quarters of a century later, Linda Nochlin disagreed with Sparrows assessment, although she substantiated Benedites
view that women artists were subjected to societal limitations that did not apply to men. Nochlin argued, quite persuasively, that if a "womans art" did exist, there would be standard
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