Mar 8, 2019 12:25pm
"The statistics of the past few decades confirm that the art world is not one of gender parity. Works by female artists comprise a small share of major permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe, while at auction, women’s artworks sell for a significant discount compared with men’s. Only two works by women have ever broken into the top 100 auction sales for paintings, despite women being the subject matter for approximately half of the top 25. It is not hard to grasp the origins of this inequality, given that women were largely barred from artistic professions and training until the 1870s. Untangling the reasons that this inequality persists today is more difficult. Differences in gallery representation; the cultural biases of art interpretation; the cliché of the art world “bad boy”; the sexism of aging; the imbalanced weight of parenthood; the proportion of curators, collectors, and gallery representatives who are female; and the lack of assertiveness among female artists have all been proposed as hypothetical causes. They are probably all correct, to some degree or another. Together, these and other mechanisms contribute to a “Matthew effect,” in which advantage begets advantage and starting over is not possible." Read more at: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-work-female-artists-valued-work-male-artists Posing question: Should female artists be paid the same as male artists if their artworks are only a "resulting difference of approximately -1%" from male artists?
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This is a Huuuuuuuuge issue and i am so thankful this has been addressed. I face it everyday in my work as a freelancer and the founder of the Lady Art Collective. I wonder... do people even care about matters pertaining to women - do women even care about women???? I start to loose my mind (just a little every day). It's really sad how the world still operates.
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4/15/2020 11:00:42 am
Although women were barred from artistic professions and training until the 1870s and inequality continues to persist today, as a society we need to be mindful of the inequality and correct prejudice of the past. Quality, talent, innovation or genius work is created by people not by their sex.
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Erin Castillo
4/24/2020 02:30:52 pm
With a society that tends to give more perseverance to men over women it's a fight that might be a long one with a lot of buyers not being female either. Buyers are the ones of museums and other private owners. Also the idea that a mans work will be more valued later on than a woman's. It could also be that people see a woman's art as more political to their view point and not just an art piece.
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Alessandro Gonzalez
5/5/2020 10:28:03 pm
Yes. In the long run that difference in percentile does make a difference, and with it still in place, it will continue to negatively affect women in the future,
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