A glance at the art history of the past decades shows that it is by no means the case that there were no great women artists – however, they often received no attention for the greater part of their lives. Only in the wake of a second feminist movement at the end of the 20th century, serious efforts have begun to give the women of past centuries the attention they deserve. The author explains: “n actuality, as we all know, things as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class, and above all, male.” In her famous essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (1971) author Linda Nochlin asks: “What if Picasso had been born a girl? Would Senor Ruiz have paid as much attention or stimulated as much ambition for achievement in a little Pablita?” Nochlin’s suggestion is: No. ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’
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