Feminine claims through art, the life of Evelyne Axell
We continue with the most outstanding artists of Pop Art, women who gave everything fought for feminist ideals and opened paths to many women who entered art, the turn is for Evelyne Axell an artist of Belgian origin who, although she had a brief career left invaluable works product of her psychedelic imagination. Come with me to know some of the most outstanding aspects of her life and work.
The subjects I deal with in her work were linked to eroticism with psychedelia, undoubtedly a time of many transformations and demands of women, thanks to the freedom of thought in the 70s Evelyne Axell was able to expand and free her mind to produce what her soul dictated female freedom.
This new way of representing feminine beauty through psychedelic nudes was well accepted by the critics who on numerous occasions made reports about the artist and how she was handled in the art world. A combination of voyeurism with jazz musical notes comprised an ample scaffold where the acid notes of nudity and female liberation were Evelyne Axell's daily bread.
Although even in those times a conservative sector of the population called the artist pornographic especially for constantly insinuating sex and femininity, and this impact much more when in 1972 with just 37 years would leave the physical world, turning her into an icon and as a guide for many feminist movements in the 70s that saw in the artist all the anti-system rebellion they needed so much to encourage followers of different movements.
Although not everything was easy, due to this tragic event, it was left in the hands of some gallery owners who had known the work of Evelyne Axell who made different exhibitions showing the erotic work of the artist. Above all, in exhibition halls in Europe.
Even today she is considered as an artist very ahead of her time, which could even suggest a bad placement of her works as pop art, although, by the methods, style and aesthetics sometimes resemble pop art, but in reality crosses the borders of art until today where it is still explored in artistic methods that claim women as subjects of social struggle.
On several occasions her work has been valued as proto-feminist, among her main techniques used for the creation of her works were materials such as acrylic painting, as well as the use of cutting saws, silver paper and many elements that are still used to this day, numerous feminist movements give talks and exhibit as they can the works of the Belgian artist.
It may seem advanced, but we should also think that so much had emerged in this liberal era that is facing women, perhaps could have been part of an important feminist movement fighting for the full inclusion of the female figure in all social strata.
Today she is remembered as that girl born into a middle-class family with deep-rooted Catholic traditions, a father who encouraged her to take her first steps in art and then broke the rules of her conservative family to become one of the most famous exhibitors of Pop art, with her death, became an icon of universal art.
If you want to know more about the artist I suggest the following links
Evelyne Axell website
Biography
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