After discussing female artist and the little acknowledgment they are truly given the rule of men came into play. The reading pointed out that many men are the main heads of major art shows, as well as a man the comment “Women don’t paint very well. It’s a fact…As always, the market is right.” by painter George Baselitz. The fact that men are the head of many major art galleries seems to be the big issue that can be pin pointed as a root to the problem of the bias in the art world, however it may not be intentional.
We have lived in a world that has made significant changes to the way women were treated in the last one hundred years, which is not nearly enough to change what seems to be normal. These CEO's and business men usually go for what they like or see will bring in the most attention and their instinct may go towards the conventional choice, which is something that is just the normal way of things that no one thinks about until it is pointed out which in turn can lead to a slow turn towards a time where none of these problems exist. Now I know this seems a little jumbled, but what I'm trying to say is there are a lot of professions that show an inequity with males and females in the workforce and with art it is a shame because I feel that the art shows the least acknowledgment towards women, as well as many other artist who were thinking beyond their time, but they are only now getting their true attention, with others reaping the benefits of their hard work.
With the comment made by Baselitz, I feel as though he can not have justly said such a thing. When I look at throughout the artist I have studied I cannot pin point an artist and say that their work has failed to be well crafted and has obtained enough popular to be appreciated by me because I feel as though that art put a lot of work into something that is entirely them. No artist is alike so artist shouldn't be put on a scale that says that their art is amazing just by their market value.