Miriam Schapiro (or Shapiro) (born 1923) is a Canadian-born artist based in America. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United States of America —commonly referred to as the She is a pioneer of feminist art. The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to make art that reflects women's lives and experience as well as to change the foundation
She was born in Toronto, Canada and studied at the State University of Iowa. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River In the 1950s and 1960s she lived in New York City with her husband, the artist Paul Brach. The City of New York Paul Brach Born March 13 1924 in New York City and he died November 16 2007 in Easthampton New York. During this period she had a successful career as an abstract expressionist painter in the hard-edge style. Abstract expressionism was an American post– World War II Art movement. Hard-edge painting consists of rough straight edges that are geometrically consistent [1]
In the 1970s she moved to California, establishing the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts with Judy Chicago. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California. Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a Feminist artist author and educator She participated in the Womanhouse exhibition in 1972.
Schapiro's work from the 1970s onwards consists primarily of collages assembled from fabrics, which she calls "femmages". Her 1977 - 1978 essay Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled - FEMMAGE (written with Melissa Meyer) describes femmage as the activities of collage, assemblage, découpage and photomontage practised by women using "traditional women's techniques - sewing, piercing, hooking, cutting, appliquéing, cooking and the like. A collage (From the coller to glue is a work of formal art primarily in the Visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms thus creating a new whole Decoupage (or découpage) is the Art of decorating an object by gluing colored Paper cutouts onto it in combination with special Photomontage is the process (and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs . . "[2]
Her works are held in numerous museum collections[3] including the National Gallery of Art. This article is about the National Gallery of the United States for other National Galleries see National Gallery. [4]
Her awards include the distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement from the College Art Association. The College Art Association of America (usually referred to as simply CAA) is the principal Professional association in the United States for scholars of [5]
References
- ^ Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, Helen Gardner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Thomson Wadsworth, 2005, p1073. ISBN 0155050907
- ^ Kristine Stiles, Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings, University of California Press, 1996, pp151-4. ISBN 0520202538
- ^ artfacts.net
- ^ nga.gov
- ^ Miriam Schapiro, feminist artist and Pattern & Decoration painter, received the distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement - People - Brief Article, Art in America, August 2002.
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