New York City-based artist Amber Vittoria paints women exclusively. Those are portrayed as cartoonish, balloon-like characters that are spectacularly peculiar. Not something you’re likely to see in a portrait museum.
“I feel like growing up knowing that I wanted to work in art somehow,” said the painter in an interview with Medium, explaining that the majority of the art she’d seen in museums was created by male artists, raising the question – how could a woman be a painter?
“On the flipside, the majority of the work that I saw, especially in classical art museums, depicted women, but they were also depicted by male artists,” she added. “So for me, it just felt so inaccurate. Women aren’t just sexual or just maternal. There is so much more to who we are and how we look, and I just felt like there was such a disconnect.”
Now, she’s fully committed to representing women through her artwork, drawing for more than 70k followers on Instagram, as well as clients like The New York Times, Google, Marc Jacobs, and Gucci.
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