![]() The institutions guarding the practicalities of art including apprenticeship and art schools are what prevented women from becoming renowned artists rather than something inherent in women themselves. ![]() Making art and becoming an artist has an important level of practicality - learning techniques, applying paint to canvas. ![]() Adoption of the latter frame of thinking about artwork makes it clearer that there are no great women artists because the institutions which focused on the creation of art discriminated against women. By assuming that art is more than anything a personal outpouring of one’s own experience, one fails to recognize that art is embodied and, as such, requires practice and individual style. ![]() Second, many answers to the question, according to Nochlin, have misconceptions about art. First, the question attempts to lead individuals to the answer, “There are no great women artists because women are incapable of greatness.” While this statement may seem laughable in 2021 as most would say that women are capable of greatness, the question can also be extended that women are incapable of the same greatness of men. ![]() When asked the question, “Why have there been no great women artists?” Linda Nochlin complicates the question itself and the presuppositions that are associated with the question. ![]()
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