art forum COMMUNITY: Anthea Callen

Landscape and Gender Anthea Callen will talk about ‘Landscape and Gender’.
 
Anthea will discuss the constraints, both physical and cultural, on women establishing themselves as landscape painters in 19th century France, which entailed work ‘en plein air’ - out in the country on the motif - as the basis for a ‘natural’ authentic artistic vision.
 
A key theme will be washerwomen, and the ways women were deployed as eroticised ‘staffage’ in landscape paintings of the period - and what this subject matter represented for women artists, notably the Impressionist Berthe Morisot (1841-1895).
 
Other artists discussed will include Corot, Pissarro, and Caillebotte.
 
Anthea Callen was Professor of Art (Practice-led Research) until 2014 in the School of Art, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
 
She is also Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture at the University of Nottingham in the UK.
 
She is a widely published scholar of international repute and also a painter.
 
Her expertise in art history, visual culture and the gender politics of visual representation spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, notably in France and Britain; her research specialises in nineteenth-century artists’ materials and techniques means she works regularly with museum conservators and curators.
 
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