#micamemes

Well, Sunday is nearly over, and so here is our MICA Meme coming to you on the tail end of Sunday.

British artist Sarah Lucas is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s. Her use of eggs in her art has been a recurring theme from her 1996 “Self-Portrait with Fried Eggs” to her recent 1000 Eggs for Women. Her art is provocative with critical and risqué humor. Sarah Lucas was born in London, England, in 1962.

So, if self-portraits are our Sunday theme, then who are we missing? Think, women, right? #micamemes #femaleartists #femmephotographer https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg-0qGHMsR2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Marie-Gabrielle Capet, born in Lyon in 1761, she became the pupil and close friend of the French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard in Paris in 1781 . Before Until the French Revolution, the Royal Academy of Art in Paris only allowed four female students at a time. Many of her miniature portraits are housed in Le Louvre. Among them is portraits of Madame Martin de Lesseps, Madame Elisabeth, sister of Louis XVI, and Mademoiselle Mars. We love the blue ribbon in her self portrait here. #femalepainters #micamemes MICA is all about #artistmothers #femaleentrepreneurs Source. Wikipedia https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf2K7IILGkW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Amrita Sher-Gil’s painting Self-Portrait as Tahitian (1934) is apparently responding to Paul Gauguin's stylization of the female nude. The artist, a part-Indian, part- Hungarian painter, moved from Hungary to Paris at the age of 16 to attend Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts. #westernmassartorganization #micamemes #femaleartists #motherarts https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRXcClNCoR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

When this 1981 self-portrait depicting a teenage girl, taken by photographer Cindy Sherman, was sold at a Christie’s auction in 2011, it was the highest price ever sold for a photograph with a selling price of $3,890,500. Of course, by 2022, money for photographs and NFTs gets thrown around like rice on a wedding day. Last month, Man Ray's famed "Le Violon d'Ingres” sold for a whopping $12.4 million!   Cindy Sherman loved to play around with identity. “I wish I could treat every day as Halloween, and get dressed up and go out into the world as some eccentric character,” she said in a “conversation” with John Waters in her book, Cindy Sherman.   Ha! How fitting to share her “selfie” when our fall arts festival falls on Halloween weekend.  #femalephotographers #micamemes #experiencemica #femalearthistoryisarthistory #arthistory (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce_Wm1eOiRj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Selfies are a 21st thing, right? Apparently the first one was on 13 of September 2002! Well, Frida Kahlo did the 20th century selfie so well. #experiencemica #womenartists #micamemes (at Northampton, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CetryVap3gQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=