Painting the Body: Feminist Musings on Visual Autographies

In this paper I look at autographical depictions of the body in the work of Mato Ioannidou, a Greek woman artist, who participated in a wider narrative-based project on visual and textual entanglements between life and art. The paper unfolds in three parts: first, I give an overview of Ioannidou’s artwork, making connections with significant events in her life; then I discuss feminist theorizations of embodiment and visual auto/biography; and finally I draw on insights from Spinozist feminist philosophers to discuss the artist’s portrayal of women’s bodies in three cycles of her work. What I argue is that the body becomes a centerpiece in the attempt to perceive connections between life and art through expressionism rather than representation

Femme au Chapeau

Verve text on verso. Published by Verve and printed by Mourlot Freres. 1 margins. James Smith Pierce Collectionhttps://commons.und.edu/jsp-artwork/1079/thumbnail.jp

Teeny (Portrait of a Woman)

Teeny or Portrait of a Woman, was part Published in the Christmas 1938 issue of the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle. Additional lithography related to the work on verso. James Smith Pierce Collection. Tag: JSP Estate Collectionhttps://commons.und.edu/jsp-artwork/1159/thumbnail.jp

La Coiffure

full vie

La Danse

La Danse is a recreation of one of Matisse’s most well known works -Danse- created by Matisse for Verve Magazine. His original work Dansewas originally one of two pieces (Danseand Music) commissioned by renowned art collector Sergei Shchukin to decorate his mansion, the Trubetskoy Palace, in Moscow. Two linocut prints on reverse. Work included in \u27School of Paris\u27 exhibition, 2019.https://commons.und.edu/jsp-artwork/1190/thumbnail.jp