Working from the well spring of who she was, a woman and a feminist, meant accepting an inescapable identity that modified her position in art. Because as a woman she was marginal even though she was the country's leading woman artist by the late 60's.
Her art was her life and her life was her art.
She discovered that time in plenty and an abundance of ideas are the necessary basics of creativity. She dreamed. She used her ideas to create works from her own experiences and the layers of who she was.
In March 1955 she worried over a question. Either-Or.
Marriage - or - an artist career.
and she married the following year and went on to do her best work!
ReplyDeletethen left him in 1979 because of his infidelity.
DeleteYes, she did her best work, but it was in spite of Micahel Snow I think.
However, what I love about Joyce Wieland is that she admitted that she loved to love men - and be loved by them and she made art about that along with art about how she loved her country. Her work is so much about relationships and being female - it is authentic and still rare to find, 50 years later.