Brooklyn Museum

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party 1974, Brooklyn Museum

My visit to the Brooklyn Museum was on Sunday November 18th 2018, this trip was a great experience because I saw so many different types of art. When I first entered the museum I felt lost and out of place, because I did not know where to go. Quickly after there was a lady present that helped guide me in the right direction and to use the app that will answer any questions on each exhibit. The museum has so much culture and tradition on each level, the most intriguing exhibits were the Art in the Age of Black Power, Half the Picture which is a feminist look into the collection of art. The American art was one of my favorite collections of art, because it depicts diversity and embraces work by women and people of color. The George Washington portrait 1796, is a beautiful piece of art with rich culture and tradition of American history. The City and the Rise of the Modern Women is another important collection that gives a good sense of how women were viewed in society during the early 1900s, a feminist look into the women rights movement and empowering females over patriarchy.
As I view so many different historical art collections like impressionism, post impressionism and modernism and post-modernism, one of the last exhibits I view is The Dinner Party. The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by a feminist artist Judy Chicago. This exhibit is a prominent function that symbolizes the history of women is western civilization. There are 39 elaborate place settings arranged along a triangular table for only 39 historical famous women. Some of the most famous women that have places arranged on the table are Georgia O' Keeffe, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Woolf, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Georgia O' Keeffe was a American artist, she was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, and is recognized as the "Mother of American modernism". Susan B. Anthony was a American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a major role in the women's suffrage movement. Virginia Woolf was a British writer, which was considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and pioneers in the use of stream of consciousness. Eleanor of Aquitaine was a queen consort of France, and duchess of Aquitaine in her own right. She was considered one of the most wealthy and powerful woman in western Europe during the Middle Ages.
The Dinner Party is an unique place where they empower women and give them the ability to show off their intelligence and talent. The exhibit came from a the idea of Judy Chicago, when she attended a real life dinner party in 1974. The dinner party was filled with all men professors that got all the glory and recognition. The women were silent and never had the last supper, which she creates a dinner party art work of American revolution for feminism. The table included place setting of hand painted china plates, ceramic flatware and chalice, with a napkin that golden edge. Each plate was brightly colored and executed a variety of needlework styles and techniques that represented women's identity.

This experience was quite different but very interesting and appealing, I didn't expect to know much about the artwork but I did learn so much information. The collections of art and history gave a great depiction of women and their identity throughout history, the different ways women artist used feminism to empower women and give women that choice to be acknowledge for their talents and education in society.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

George Washington 1796