“It is delusion looking to the past only through the eyes of men”

 Withdrawing female backstage artists 

Artemizia Jentileski’s famous painting “Susanna and the elders” / 17th century /

Recently Nazik Aslanyan’s personal painting exhibition opened in Yerevan. In an interview with the journalists the president of the Union of Artists of Armenia Karen Aghamyan admitted that the number of men is dominating among the leading artists.

“But I assure you, it will take 5-10 years, and you will see a different picture. I teach at the Academy of Fine Arts and the majority of learners in all courses are girls. I cannot explain the reason for the increase in the number of girls. This exhibition shows that it does not matter; the authors of paintings are women or men. In this spirit, the momentum, the strength in painting, not all men can render it, “said union president.

British «The Guardian» newspaper referred to the lack of female artists in the galleries, in television, underrepresentation of their works.

Why women are less represented in the galleries. BBC- writes that Professor Amadou Vickery took up exploring women in the area of creative work. He travels to the Italian Renaissance to Nederlandner and reveals the hidden world of the performing arts of women.

Wandering in storages, churches and basements, he finds the shadows of many hidden women artists, revealing stories of courage and determination, which are full of insurmountable obstacles.

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