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with Nina Heyn and Ricardo Oskam Interview 
“When I talk about [women artists’] life stories, it is with the aim of giving their paintings a context and facilitating deeper understanding. At the end of the day, however, it is the art itself—and not their gender or biography—that makes me admire some of these artists.”
~ Nina Heyn, Foreword to Women in Art: Artists, Models and Those Who Made It Happen
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Last year, Food for the Soul’s Nina Heyn and Ricardo Oskam shared a popular two-part conversation about Vermeer after they visited the landmark Vermeer exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. This week, Nina and Ricardo join forces once again to talk about their March excursion to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), where they went on a “treasure hunt” to find paintings by some of the women artists featured in Nina’s forthcoming book, Women in Art: Artists, Models and Those Who Made It Happen.
Nina observes that tracking down specific paintings in the vast reaches of a large 19th-century-built museum like the PMA can be a challenge; in this instance, the pleasure of standing before canvases by women who “carved their own path” in art made the hunt worthwhile. Ricardo, commenting on his personal art appreciation journey, notes that identifying one’s favorite artists and paintings is an adventure in its own right—and one that can be undertaken without any formal training. As they discuss works by six 17th- through 20th-century women artists—Judith Leyster, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Georgia O’Keeffe—the two also touch on themes such as painters’ influence on fashion and the ever-present tension between maintaining one’s creative vision versus creating art that “pays the bills.”
While waiting for her book to become available, don’t forget to dive into Nina’s fascinating insights on women’s roles in art at Food for the Soul.
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