Judy Chicago's artistic evaluation

Judy Chicago is an artist who participated in American feminist art ... since she was a child, it has clear significance to become a female artist and develop feminist-based art education. As Judy Chicago himself said, "My interest is to try my best to make myself and other women become artists and achieve something." Judy Chicago is firm on this point. He has been working hard all his life, writing the ups and downs of those struggles into the flowers.

1972, on the first day of the opening of the exhibition "Women's Home", only female visitors were allowed to visit, and then male visitors were allowed to visit. The concept of this exhibition was first put forward by Paula Harper, a female student of art history, at the meeting, which triggered a heated discussion: traditionally, the family is for women, and the purpose of women's struggle is to please others. So what will the family look like if women only please themselves? Therefore, Chicago and Shapiro led 23 female students and 3 female fiber artists to transform a big Hollywood house with 17 rooms into an artistic complex of devices and behaviors, including dolls, pillows, cosmetics, sanitary napkins, stockings, underwear, children's toys, washbasins, toasters, frying pans, refrigerators, door handles, shower caps, quilts and satin sheets. The Woman's House is of great significance, and Judy Chicago and her feminist art Black Pink were born here.

Judy Chicago's struggle experience and artistic creation as a female artist are typical representatives of American feminism in 1970s. It took her a long time to create a female reproductive image called "central image", which is not found in the history of traditional art. It is essentially a challenge to male reproduction and its symbolic male society, suggesting that female reproduction is as powerful as male reproduction. Judy Chicago thinks: "There is a difference between seeing yourself actively and passively. This power comes from your understanding of your gender and women themselves. " Judy Chicago's masterpiece Dinner is more complete and mature, which embodies her feminist artistic view.

Dinner is not only a hymn to the female audience, but also a rotten egg thrown at the male audience. Those who love it regard it as a standard, and those who hate it gnash their teeth. For example, in 1990, Judy Chicago is going to give dinner as a gift to the University of the District of Columbia, and the University is also going to transform a library into a cultural center to collect dinner permanently. However, this plan was strongly protested by * * * and party member, who threatened to cut the financial budget of the university and terminate the national art funding, and finally fell through. Nevertheless, Judy Chicago and her "Dinner Party" have exerted worldwide influence and occupied an important position in the history of western women's art. The Dinner Party, a visual epic literary system, appeared repeatedly in Judy Chicago's later artistic creation.

From A Woman's House to A Solution: A Needle in Time, Judy Chicago's artistic creation in the past 30 years has never left the main line of feminism, especially her female genital pattern, which is in the same strain as O'Keefe's, shines brilliantly in Dinner and becomes a typical symbol of essentialism in feminist art.

Since dinner, Judy Chicago has developed a series of propositions about life and death, war and peace, power and weakness, and human values from feminism. The Holocaust Plan: From Darkness to Light includes a tapestry, two stained glass windows and 13 large-scale graphic works full of dramatic paintings and photography. The work reviews the history of Nazi massacre of Jews in modern human history, prompting the audience to think about the relationship between people, people and society, and the past, present and future of the world in which human beings live. From 1994 to 2000, the work solution: one stitch and one thread consists of 19 images and a sculpture, including embroidery, applique, quilting, beading, knitting, pleating, sewing and dots. In this work, she re-examines the ancient human values: family, and.

Therefore, for Judy Chicago, dinner is a starting point. Since then, her artistic language system has been established. First of all, the position of postmodern feminism and the narrative system of modernist heroism are developing simultaneously. Secondly, arts and crafts, marginal arts and inferior arts are exquisite, mainstream and advanced; Finally, the synthesis of art and communication. These factors make Judy Chicago's art proceed from Noklin's logic to meet Beauvoir's peak in the cultural field.