A feminine viewpoint throughout art history has had a small lens.  It was not that woman didn’t do fine art but their main function was as objects for paintings or their work considered too feminine to have substance or meaning. During the 50’s and 60’s the art movement of Abstract Expressionist became even more of a boys club.  This weeks’ artist is Elaine de Kooning who had to deal with this bias with a double lens of being female and married to an artist.

Elaine was an Abstract and Figurative Expressionist. Even though, she was the only female member of the Eight Street Club in New York City, an artistic think tank with some of the heavy hitter of the Expressions movement, her work was looked over.  A perfect example of this overly male point of view was her first show. It  was curated for married artists to show their artwork together; however, it was called Artists: Man and Wife.  Which she later commented:   “It seemed like a good idea at the time, but later I came to think that it was a bit of a put-down of the women. There was something about the show that attached women-wives- to the real artists”.

For that reason, Elaine chose to sign her artworks with her initials rather than her full name, to avoid her paintings’ being labeled as feminine in a traditionally masculine movement and not to be confused with her husband’s paintings. When you look at her body of work most of her portraits and abstracts are of men or bulls and are done with broad strokes.  As if she is saying you want to see through the lens of a powerful woman – here you go.

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Aries – Page of Swords

The Page of Swords means you need to do some investigative work this week.  Everything is not as it seems. There is an underlining dialogue or situation that needs to be uncovered.

Taurus – King of Swords

The last two weeks have been deep with the Star and Hermit challenging you to heal and take solace in solitude.  You need that for this week because the King of Sword is the strategist of the deck.  This card advises you to take this week to do some long-term, like until 2020, planning.
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