National Museum of Women in the Arts

As a pioneer of the feminist art movement in the 1970s, Miriam Shapiro has been known for what is known, mainly male artists and "advanced" expressing "decorative" art used to refer to women I challenged the dichotomy of art. And folk artists are placed in anonymity.

Her critical breakthrough took place in 1972, when she studied women's art projects at Judy Chicago and their 21 California Art Museum, where they made a house for women.

The abandoned mansion uses the icons of homework to link the cultural heritage of women with the progressive feminist expression and to explore the process and history of gender building.

In the following year, Schapiro developed this relationship in a visual language designed to restore and strengthen the work of past craftworkers using quilting, embroidery and decals. In order to explain her work and the activities they quoted, she invented the word "femmage", which suggests continuity between high class collages and works made by anonymous women. did.

Since the 1990s Schapiro's works incorporate figurative elements and the femininity mentioned in her abstract works is anthropomorphic and stands out from the "femmeade" model becoming a vibrant dance woman It is.

In 1963, Remedios Varo died of a heart attack and left about 1000 artworks without a will. In 2000, a retrospective exhibition was held at the National Women's Museum in Washington DC, established the heritage of Varo and highlighted her major contribution to the Surrealist movement.

In the District of Columbia there are a number of private museums such as the National Museum of Women and the Philipps Collection of DuPont Circle, the first modern art museum in the United States, including major collections and exhibitions that are open to the public. . Other private museums in Washington include Newzium, the Au Street Museum Foundation, the International Spy Museum, the National Geographic Society Museum, the Marian Koshland Science Museum, and the Bible Museum. The American Holocaust Memorial Museum near the National Mall stores exhibits, documents, and artifacts related to the Holocaust.

Most of the early art museums were said to be suitable for everyone, but recent museums seem to be partisans. The National Women's Art Museum, the African American Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the Hispanic Museum are known as museums. Almost all groups have their own museums (or desires). Arthur Danto explored the "Vulcanization" of the museum with his article "Museum for Millionaire and Desire". The minority believes that a new museum is necessary because their artists, hobbies, values ​​are not appearing in mainstream museums. (These people may point out the philosopher David Hume's "taste standard".