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Fields
Artistic Movements
Academic art
9
Outsider art
4
Art nouveau
6
Impressionism
10
Realism
36
[Artist collectives]
115
Subjects
Abstraction
340
Allegory
106
Animals
163
Self-portrait
175
Political issues
351
Women's status
301
Human body
415
Colour
212
Documentary
120
Childhood
108
Eroticism
76
Public space
85
Feminism
298
War & conflicts
143
History
267
Identity
201
Intimacy
103
Language
89
Light
81
Magic & esotericism
7
Maternity
112
Memory
197
Music
63
Myths, tales & legends
94
Nature
236
Still life
151
Nude
152
Landscape
287
Urban landscape
149
Portrait
407
Racism
67
Religion & spirituality
181
Domestic scene
110
Science
49
Entertainment
55
Traditions
227
Work
78
Vegetal
159
Everyday life
277
Travel
75
Mediums
Applied arts
208
Jewellery & silverware
20
Ceramic
77
Costumes
37
Medal
8
Furniture
19
Graphic arts
776
Watercolour
183
Drawing (ink, pencil…)
509
Engraving & etching
224
Illustration
97
Pastel & wax
107
Audiovisual
340
Installation
481
[Modes]
124
Monumental
127
Painting
773
Gouache
95
Oil
444
Performance
227
Photography
413
Analogue photography
236
Historical techniques
28
Sculpture
435
Bronze
95
Wax
18
Marble
28
Stone
44
Plaster
79
Clay
96
Textile
205
Countries
Africa
89
Central America and the Caribbean
38
North America
363
United States
317
South America
99
Asia
170
Europe
740
Germany
112
Belgium
20
Spain
40
Estonia
13
France
367
Italy
50
Norway
13
United Kingdom
100
Switzerland
35
Middle East
99
Oceania
45
Periods of
activity
17th century
2
18th century
20
19th century
82
1820s
11
1830s
11
1840s
14
1850s
13
1870s
32
1880s
34
1890s
60
20th century
1196
1900s
88
1910s
143
1920s
215
21st century
780
Programmes
— + 1
23
— Amazons of Pop, 1961–73
13
— Women Artists of the 1960s in Africa
17
— 18th-Century Women Artists
25
— Southeast Asian Women Artists
18
— Women Artists in Japan, 19th–21st c.
23
— Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–85
13
— AWARE x Canada
9
— AWARE x Musée d’Orsay
36
— Women in Abstraction
31
— Le Louvre & AWARE
7
— New Media, 1960s-1990s
7
— Netherlands–Caribbean, 19th–21st c.
11
— Rewriting Art History in the Americas
44
— Season Africa2020
23
— TEAM: Teaching, E-learning, Agency, Mentoring
163
The indexed biographies correspond to artists born between 1664 and 1974.
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1799 — 1871 | United Kingdom
Anna Atkins
1845 — 1932 | Norway
Harriet Backer
1844 — 1923 | France
Sarah Bernhardt
1825 — 1909 | France
Hélène Bertaux
1820 — Italy | 1904 — France
Mathilde Létizia Wilhelmine Bonaparte
1822 — 1899 | France
Marie Rosalie Bonheur (dite Rosa Bonheur)
1815 — India | 1879 — Sri Lanka
Julia Margaret Cameron
1844 — 1924 | France
Marie Cazin
1840 — 1926 | France
Victoria Dubourg
1827 — 1888 | France
Éléonore Escallier
1801 — 1886 | Italy
Félicie de Fauveau
1847 — 1883 | France
Eva Gonzalès
1824 — 1902 | Livonia (Estonia)
Julie Hagen-Schwarz
1814 — Spain | 1884 — United Kingdom
Georgiana Houghton
1812 — 1877 | France
Marie-Louise Lefèvre-Deumier
1845 — 1928 | France
Madeleine Lemaire (Jeanne Magdelaine Lemaire, dite)
1844 — United States | 1907 —
Mary Edmonia « Wildfire » Lewis
1836 — Switzerland | 1879 — Italy
Marcello (Adèle d’Affry, duchesse de Castiglione Colonna, dite)
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