5/20/2023 0 Comments Blood water paint![]() Instead of guiding Artemisia, he rapes her, and although she calls out to the house servant, Tuzia, no one comes to her aid. She soon realizes that women are dismissed as “beauty for consumption.” Artemisia’s most troubling observations are confirmed when her father, in the guise of procuring a high-profile commission, hires fellow artist Agostino Tassi to tutor her. She ponders her own talent (she paints better than her father yet receives no proper credit), her role and identity as a woman, and her sexuality. ![]() Set in 1610, the story begins with 17-year-old Artemisia assisting her father in his painting studio. In her debut novel, Blood Water Paint, Joy McCullough recounts in fictionalized free verse a pivotal time in Artemisia’s life. She became a masterful Baroque artist in her own right, with paintings that reflected feminist concerns and employed an eye-opening realism during a time when art-like the entire world-was dominated by men. Centuries before the #MeToo movement entered the cultural landscape, there was Artemisia Gentileschi.īorn in Rome at the turn of the 17th century, Artemisia was introduced to painting by her artist father after she showed more talent than her brothers. ![]()
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