Any type of art is a way to express a person’s feelings, what goes through an artist’s mind, and sometimes their past. Throughout history women were not prominent in the art world but men were. During a certain time period women were not allowed to do anything to express their feelings such as writing, painting, or performing music. The Guerilla Girls protested against women not being known for art.Some female artists would follow a famous male artist to copy his work. The reason being is to put the men’s work into a women’s perspective like Artemisia Gentileschi did with Caravaggio. The Guerrilla Girls and Gentileschi are both feminist who use art to show a women’s perspective. In the article Bring female artists out of storage, Vickery …show more content…
He eventually was recognized and was asked to paint scenes for chapels. Caravaggio painted with a “realistic naturalism” at the Contarelli Chapel (485). While he was painting biblical scenes he was also getting into trouble with law by getting into fights and killing a man. Caravaggio started running from his problems and eventually died while running away from the sentence for killing a man (Caravaggio). One of the biblical scenes that Caravaggio painted was the Judith Decapitating Holofernes. The one thing that interested him the most was the old time clothes. He would spend a lot of time detailing the clothes and making them look biblical, old, and worn out. His painting looks calm and delicate and the General seems shocked that she was killing him. Artemisia Gentileschi was a female follower of Caravaggio and the Baroque style. One of the things Gentileschi liked to follow Caravaggio for was the tenebrism that he used in his art work for dramatic effect. Tenebrism is a painting where the background is painted dark and the scene is lite up. Both Caravaggio and Gentileschi have similarities and differences with their paintings of Judith Decapitating Holofernes. In Gateways to Art, it states, “both artists use extreme darks and lights for dramatic effect, emphasize the violence of the scene through spurting blood, and blood stained sheets, and show the female characters