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Fields
Architecture
9
Decorative arts & design
3
Visual arts
1442
Artistic Movements
Conceptual art
85
Art Deco
3
Hyperrealism
5
Mail art
12
Member of a collective
112
Pop art
46
Surrealism
55
Subjects
Abstraction
372
Allegory
132
Animals
181
Architecture
140
Autobiography
135
Self-portrait
199
Political issues
398
Social classes
108
Women's status
334
Consumerism
93
Human body
469
Colour
232
Discriminations
162
Documentary
138
Ecology
88
Writing
178
Childhood
119
Eroticism
83
Public space
101
Fantasy & dreams
87
Feminism
318
Party & nightlife
37
Geometry
158
War & conflicts
158
History
293
Identity
225
Industry
32
Intimacy
118
Irony
65
Games & toys
18
Language
90
Light
88
Disease
45
Mannequins & dolls
42
Maternity
120
Media
64
Memory
217
Human migration
104
Fashion & clothing
68
Death
74
Myths, tales & legends
102
Nature
281
Still life
160
Nude
167
Landscape
320
Urban landscape
167
Visual perception
52
Portrait
453
Postcolonialism
110
Advertisement
51
Romantic relationships
47
Religion & spirituality
205
Domestic scene
117
Science
55
Sexuality
135
Sport
15
Surveillance
5
Time
30
Traditions
244
Work
86
Domestic work
86
Vegetal
180
Everyday life
303
Aging
35
Violence
148
Travel
80
Mediums
Objects
224
Ceramic
86
Glassware
3
Graphic arts
833
Watercolour
195
Collage
211
Drawing (ink, pencil…)
547
Engraving & etching
234
Illustration
106
Artist book
90
Pastel & wax
111
Screen printing
76
Performing arts
36
Audiovisual
363
Film
132
Digital
58
Sound
81
Video
254
Concepts
28
Space & installation
523
Accumulation
98
Architecture
11
Assemblage
248
Environment
146
Light installation
48
[Modes]
136
Ephemeral
30
Site-specific
119
Monumental
133
Painting
862
Acrylic
170
Mural
42
Oil
502
Tempera
34
Performance
246
Photography
434
Analogue photography
250
Digital photography
101
Photomontage
73
Sculpture
466
Wood
119
Bronze
99
Wax
18
Metal
140
Paper & cardboard
26
Stone
48
Plastic
48
Plaster
84
Resin
33
Clay
99
Glass
26
Textile
212
Weaving
66
Countries
Africa
102
Central America and the Caribbean
42
France (Antilles)
7
North America
387
United States
339
Mexico
32
South America
108
Argentina
31
Brazil
30
Uruguay
5
Asia
212
Burma
2
Japan
69
Malaysia
6
Thailand
6
Europe
811
Germany
116
France
389
Italy
61
Poland
31
Czech Republic
13
United Kingdom
106
Switzerland
37
Middle East
110
Israel
51
Lebanon
22
Syria
4
Oceania
49
Periods of
activity
XVIe siècle
4
17th century
8
18th century
25
19th century
103
20th century
1302
1920s
232
1930s
293
1940s
317
1950s
396
1960s
538
1970s
640
1980s
746
1990s
894
21st century
851
2000s
850
2010s
756
2020s
556
Programmes
— + 1
24
— Amazons of Pop, 1961–73
13
— Women Artists of the 1960s in Africa
21
— 18th-Century Women Artists
28
— Southeast Asian Women Artists
33
— Women Artists in Japan, 19th–21st c.
30
— Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–85
13
— AWARE & MACBA
7
— AWARE x Canada
9
— AWARE x Luxembourg
4
— AWARE x Musée d’Orsay
36
— Common Ground
4
— Women in Abstraction
31
— Le Louvre & AWARE
14
— Les architectes
7
— New Media, 1960s-1990s
10
— Netherlands–Caribbean, 19th–21st c.
12
— Photographers from Japan
5
— Rewriting Art History in the Americas
48
— Season Africa2020
23
— TEAM: Teaching, E-learning, Agency, Mentoring
177
The indexed biographies correspond to artists born between 1664 and 1974.
1969 | Italy
Vanessa Beecroft
1953 | France
Sophie Calle
1917 — United Kingdom | 2011 — Mexico
Leonora Carrington
1953 — 1996 | United Kingdom
Helen Chadwick
1969 | Myanmar
Chaw Ei Thein
1942 | Syria
Simone Fattal
1940 — 2021 | Malaysia
Sylvia Lee Goh
1902 — Germany | 1998 — Israel
Hedwig Grossman Lehmann
1909 — 1981 | Martinique, France
Marie-Thérèse Julien Lung-Fou
1944 | United States
Kay Kurt
1929 | Japan
Yayoi Kusama
1937 — 2022 | Poland
Natalia LL
1943 | Argentina
Marta Minujín
1932 — 2020 | Argentina
Margarita Paksa
1927 — 2004 | Brazil
Lygia Pape
1934 — Czechoslovakia | 1999 — Czech Republic
Naděžda Plíšková
1961 | Thailand
Pinaree Sanpitak
1946 | France
Dorothée Selz
1967 | Switzerland
Gerda Steiner
1931 — 2014 | United States
Marjorie Strider
1933 — Taiwan | 2024 — Japan
Mitsuko Tabe
1895 — 1960 | Uruguay
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