Humor and Bananas

"We’re feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. How do we expose sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture? With facts, humor and outrageous visuals".
This is Guerrila Girl's manifest. This group of artists born in 1985; realizing how sexist and racist was the world of art the decided to fight this sad tendency revealing it with the weapon of humor, irony and visual communication. 
One of most known pieces they made is the yellow advertising where a female nude is wearing their typical guerrilla mask. Soon this became emblem of a movement which aim was to subvert white-male centrality in Europe to transform the world of art into a more democratic one.


Still know the most known artists are male because in our history women were not well seen to study in academies, so our art culture, as all the rest is patriarchal, edipus-like, where the male is the strong figure which we have to get through while the female is just the beautiful "thing" to love, to whish to have without being afraid of her ability if not of her misleading sensuality.
Women are crucial in art, but they are still more crucial as subject, as beauty, while they could have more space, a thing that many women now-a-days, see Cindy Shermann, Georgia O'Keefe, Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, masterly demonstrated. 

http://www.guerrillagirls.com/


http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/


http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/f/feminism.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_art_movement


http://www.amazon.com/Art-Feminism-Helena-Reckitt/dp/0714835293


http://www.amazon.com/Feminism-Art-Theory-Anthology-1968-2000-Hilary-Robinson/dp/063120850X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305671965&sr=1-2


http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Bedside-Companion-History-Western/dp/014025997X/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305671965&sr=1-8


http://www.artnet.com/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=06E04BA0A9056F53