by Ruth Schreiber

Artwork Description

Untitled (the Female Side of God)

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My inkjet print, “Untitled (The Female Side of God)” brings a focus to female power, a woman taking the place of the male God in Michelangelo’s familiar image of Creation, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling. This fits in with your subject since women have always been creators in the sense of childbirth and child rearing, but in recent decades have become first movers in all branches of society- Prime Ministers, Ministers, Members of Parliament, doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors CEOs, in all Western countries. Women are even found now in high positions in armies, that last bastion of male exclusivity. It’s true that women still do not always and everywhere achieve equal pay for equal work, when compared to men; it’s true that professions in which women outnumber men are still poorly paid- e.g. teaching and nursing. Nevertheless the principle of equal pay for equal work has been established and the concept of female ability, intelligence, reliability, staying power has been widely accepted. We do still think of God, if we consider God at all, as male. All Christian art as well as the arts of other religions, generally hold with this traditional, widespread view. My artwork invites a fresh look at this idea, and therefore also at its corollaries.

Artwork Details

Medium: Digital Art

Genre: Figurative