Saint Louis Art Museum Visit

Yesterday I went to the Saint Louis Art Museum. When I first came in, I asked one of the gallery attendants if there were any exhibits about women. He told me no (which I already knew from the website) so I then asked him which category of art featured the most amount of female artist and he told me I'd just have to look around and see. I knew as well but I asked just incase.

When comparing how gender was portrayed in the art museum I noticed that a lot of the art that featured women as subjects was made by male artist. In the religious European art section I noticed that most of art work featured men. Even though women are religious and have played and still play a large part in religion there always kind of in the background so this did not surprise me much.  Another thing I noticed was that all of the nude art was made by male artist and once again primarily featured female subjects. This made me wonder if there were any famous pieces of nude men, made by women. In the European Art Modern Body area every single piece of art featured female subjects, however, most if not all, were (once again) made by men.

Overall I found the representation of gender in the Saint Louis Art Museum to be under representative of women. Women were often the subjects of art but not so much the creators of art.

Sidenote: Taking pictures of your self in the art museum was so awkward (hence the sideways picture below).