A feminist approach to art history

Abstract

This paper presents the viewpoints of progressive feminist pioneers and their critical views that will light the way for today's woman. Discovering the fate of women through the time of the male system, it is necessary to give an insight into the female values that are woven into the pores of human life. Therefore, when it comes to feminist criticism, it seeks to encourage the expansion of freedom of both sexes, advocating an inclusive approach that does not degrade anyone. The French historian, feminist Simone de Beauvoir in her work "The Second Sex", writing the Terian polemic of women, states that the woman was assigned the role of the Second, while the world of the First is the world of the original, bourgeois masculinities, which struck the solid foundations of the patriarchal order. Women critically confront the history of philosophy and art. Patriarchal opinions will be long drawn out through artistic and philosophical thought, so it is no wonder why there is very little female intellectual legacy today. Female artists have faced different challenges through different periods, because the role of a woman as an artist, her professional success, her very integrity and existence have been questioned.