Quote:Remedios Varo (1908-1963) was a 20th-century Surrealist painter. Born in Spain, she was forced to move to France and Mexico to escape the Spanish Civil War and World War II. However, it also allowed her to meet the Surrealists, such as Benjamin Péret and Leonora Carrington. One can never be sure what is happening in her paintings; there is always a sense of mystery. Her works are a window to a fantastical and enigmatic world full of magical creatures.

Quote:Oi’s artistic career was - and will probably always be - overshadowed by her father’s legacy. From the outset it doesn’t seem like a situation Oi was actively avoiding, but rather something of a duty, this attitude is evident later on in her career when she went to work for her father and assist him in his old age.

Hokusai, however, would have been the first to admit that in many artistic pursuits his daughter’s work outshone his. In her blog piece, Davis quotes Hokusai as saying “when it comes to paintings of beautiful women, I can’t compete with her – she’s quite talented and expert in the technical aspects of painting.”

Quote:Who Was Suzanne de Court?
Unfortunately, information about Suzanne de Court’s life and work is scarce but she certainly lived between the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Judging by her last name and profession, she could have been the daughter of Jean de Court (1530-1584), who owned a workshop of enamel pieces in Limoges, France. Another hypothesis is that she was related to the De Court family by marriage. According to the British Museum, the lack of records is due to her protestant faith (Huguenots) which kept her off Catholic baptismal registers. In any case, there are records of her name as the head of the workshop, as well as pieces signed with her name. So far, she is the only woman documented to have occupied that position.

Quote:Cecilia Beaux was the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ first full-time female professor. She was also a member of the National Academy of Design. She won many accolades in the U.S. and Europe, including medals at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. Beaux received two honorary college degrees, and Eleanor Roosevelt named her “the American woman who had made the greatest contribution to the culture of the world” in 1933. She was an independent and successful woman at a time when that wasn’t typical.

Quote:Gagné had already secured a place in the history books with her nomination by becoming the first woman to be nominated in both the categories of cinematography/directing for the same drama series in the same year.

Quote:And in her day, the artist who huddled over this sheet, meticulously clipping out the negative space, was every bit as famous as those icons. Her name was Joanna Koerten, but her skill with the scissors earned her the epithet “Scissors-Minerva,” after the Roman goddess of art.
“The Blok,” the museum she ran out of her house, was described by the art historian Martha Moffitt Peacock, writing in the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, as an “eighth wonder of the world.” Tsar Peter the Great, Cosimi de Medici, and innumerable poets and fellow artists visited there to watch her make her careful incisions. At one point, one of her diminutive paper-cuttings sold for more than Rembrandt’s monumental Night Watch. After her death, her husband published a book of poems in praise of her work; in time, the collection swelled to fill six volumes.

• Meshes of the Afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoETYvwI7I0 (14 min)
  
• At Land: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvafmE3Lel0 (14 min 50 sec)
  
• A Study in Choreography for Camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3W9yFHaVGI (2 min 8 sec)
  
• The Private Life of a Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1HRdBafWEQ (22 min) Note: she was uncredited for this film.
  
• Ritual in Transfigured Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P86jPAHOvG4 (14 min 26 sec)
  
• Meditation on Violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmVQ3YcMUuc (12 min 25 sec)
  
• The Very Eye of Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ppBqHIb6Y (14 min 36 sec)