Representation of Gender in Art

Gender is represented in art in more ways than one. It's represented both physically and culturally, and probably many other ways. The issues concerning the representation of gender in art were mostly addressed and "driven by a movement of women's emancipation and the twentieth-century emergence of feminism, as women have sought to obtain the rights, privileges, and unique forms of expression that men have enjoyed historically in patriarchal societies where class, race, and sexuality were defined by the dominant gender." Feminist art and art history emerged in the 1960's and resulted in a "re-appreciation of the representation of the woman as a subject, creator, and receptor of pictorial art but also has inspired a broader examination of gender-related issues in art through the establishment of gay studies and men's studies, where questions of homosexuality, heterosexuality, masculinity, femininity, and indeed sex itself all pertain to the concept of gender." In art, gender is a classification of masculinity and femininity which is meant to represent and speak out to certain genders and groups of people.

Here's a picture, that shows the differences of gender in art:

Sources: (http://science.jrank.org/pages/7718/Gender-in-Art.html)