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Cincinnati Art Museum exhibits honor women
>> Garry Winogrand’s Women Are Beautiful, through Aug. 23. A glimpse into the world of Garry Winogrand, whose work defined a quintessential “American” photography in the late twentieth century. Winogrand’s photographs of street life, the suburbs, and the fractured, postwar, new consumer culture that emerged in the 1950s, remind us how the every day is loaded with anonymous joy and pathos and how each moment in life is filled with happenstance and the unexpected. “Women Are Beautiful” is a time capsule of the Pop and Mod 1960s, showcasing the ever-changing nature of fashion and representation of female beauty. “Street” photographs, they raise tricky issues like the “male gaze” and voyeurism, and how they relate to the paparazzi-style reportage that is a mainstay of our contemporary culture (above, “New York 1965”).
>> Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women, June 6-Sept. 6. Vonnoh (1872-1955) was the leading sculptor of American womanhood of her time and a pioneer among female artists. This is the first exhibition devoted to the artist, and spotlights the artist’s small sculpture and garden statuary portraying women as both icons of beauty and moral guardians of family and home. The exhibition features over 35 works from 1895 to 1930. It presents Vonnoh’s sculpture in bronze, her favored medium, as well three rare works in terra cotta and two portraits of the artist painted by her husband, American Impressionist Robert William Vonnoh. Like American Impressionist painters, Bessie Potter Vonnoh took contemporary daily life as her subject matter, focusing on statuettes of women and children dressed in the period’s fashions. She designed these intimate works for the artistic embellishment of the home at a time when most sculptors concentrated on monuments and grand public statements.
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