Cognitive Function and Women's Art

Finding the conditio muliebris in Postmodernism: Mimetic exploration and aesthetic understanding of female nature

“…The theoretical contribution of the above art feminist practitioners is a testimony to how theoretically informed woman artists drove towards a kind of morphological difference to men's art, which found substance in the specific mimetic quality of the female condition, thus changing the form of art 31 . In their reflections, acting in the art field became neither a question of integration into the patriarchal art world and its male dominated perspective, nor one of creating a safe haven for women to indulge in their traditional dwellings and subject matters, but to change the character of art through a different aesthetic attitude derived from the conditio muliebris that is different from men's, precisely because it feels different to be a woman 32 . In this sense, it can be said that Lippard, EXPORT, and Kelly were coming to terms with the simplistic parallelism between woman and nature, which is partly nurtured by the primitive Mother Nature idealism of patriarchal ascendency which, however, tends to pin down women to their reproductive role and confine them in the sphere of family matters that are not universal, as compared to male experience 33 .…”