Over the centuries, women have always connected to art in all its expression, whether in music , literature, theatre or in painting … They have made and continue to make a contribution in the art movement and are involved in its progress .However, the issue of discrimination has been a battle that women fight against and struggle with. So how is the gender discrimination a challenge in the art world? Who are the biggest female artists in the history? And what have they accomplished?

There has been a widespread and radical belief that women were not as good or as talented as men in the making of any kind of art .So in these conditions, it is hard for women to prove that their bond with the art world is the same as the men’s bond with it. Therefore, women oeuvres were not as popular and well liked as men’s. Even if there is an increase of tolerance between both genders, we still see in our time a kind of inequality. Women artists have confessed that they are not as well paid as men. They are less showed in galleries and festivals. In something as subjective as art the topic of gender specific shouldn’t matter at all. We normally should appreciate art for what it gives and how it looks not for who made it. ‎Fighting against this unfairness is something that women are obligated to do to integrate the artistic domain and some of them express it through their work.

The world has known a lot of different and talented female artists in so many fields such as Madonna who is considered the queen of pop and the most successful female artist in the history of music .Etta James is for her  jazz and soul music , Tina turner or the queen of rock n roll, Whitney Houston one of the greatest female singers of all time , Adele is known for her vocal powerhouse , Fayrouz or the voice of an angel. Her songs were used as a therapy .In literature, we find Jane Austen famous for her books ” pride and prejudice ” , ” Emma ” and ” persuasion” , Virginia Woolf best known for her novels especially ” Mrs. Dalloway “and ” to the lighthouse”. She also wrote pioneering essays on women’s writing, politics of power, artistic theory … J K Rowling famous for her saga “ harry potter” , Sappho one of the first great women poets ever , Elif Shafak the Turkish most popular novelist. In the cinema, Cate Blanchett is one of the most famous actresses and movie producer. She is the second best actress in film history. Julie Taymor is a Theatre Director, Opera Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter, and Lyricist. Audrey Hepburn is the star of Breakfast at Tiffany’s remains one of Hollywood’s greatest style icons and one of the world’s most successful actresses. Hepburn is one of the few actresses to win an Emmy  , Tony, Grammy, and Academy Award .In the painting domain, Lili Elbe the famous Danish transgender was a very successful painter. Jenny Saville best known for her rich, naturalistic paintings of large, fleshy women often features images of her own body in her work. Yayoi Kusama is one of the most beloved and famous contemporary artists in history of art. She has always reflected our world in her paintings. Sonia Boyce is the most famous painter to come from the British Black Arts Movement in the 1980s.

Women have always been a part of the art world. We have always found a touch of their works in the male ruled society, even when they were not in a position to introduce their work due to social roles imposed on them. Diversity is what makes art great so discrimination has no place in the art world.