Aurora Rosselli: Being an Artist and Taking on the Male Dominant System

Jenny Hopkins Fame
3 min readJul 23, 2020

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The debate in question was started in 1971 when Linda Nochlin presented her pioneering essay on the absence of great women artists. It was titled, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” and aimed to address a recurrent problem of gender segregation in arts. The essayist highlighted the art fraternity’s approach towards the idea of “accomplished female artists” and its view on the gap between men and women artists in art.

Questions are still being raised today despite the democratization of arts and leading campaigns aimed at fighting notions of sexism and promoting equality and fairness. In such a view, there have been fewer women artists who managed to earn a breakthrough with their works being lauded in public and tracked on Google searches.

Aurora Rosselli is one such artist who has given about 25 years of commendable presence as an artist. Rosselli’s professional attributes alongside an emphatic contemporary artist include photography, design, and content creation. She studied at the Liceo Artistico, where she could out pour her creative sense and potential into finding her art style.

It was the time at Accademia di Belle Arti in Catania where Rosselli formed a benchmark, one that is attributed to her success and popularity of her works.

Creativity is a bespoke aesthetic of contemporary

In any work of art, the creative process is perhaps the most important act. This internal work implies a very strong emotional charge that involves memories of the education received, the family, places, smells, images found at some point in life, music, etc.

All these memories are hierarchically found in our interior based on the impact that the experience generated in the unconscious. As time passes, they are associated with objects to shape new images.

Throughout history, some artists described their creative process from different emotions; the first and perhaps the most common is from depression, others from the perception of order, others under compulsive and schizophrenic sensations, some under the influence of drugs and alcohol or from the exploration of sex, charged with curiosity and eroticism.

Rosselli adds, “Whatever the emotion with which it is produced, the truth is that with the reflection and union between memories and visual associations, the artist can understand their work and themselves, endowing it with strength and originality.

“Perhaps that is why the disciplines that are understood as art are the preferred expressions of man since their qualities allow freedom, security, passion, concentration, love, etc., feelings that every artist seeks to satisfy throughout their life.”

As an artist, Rosselli has conducted iconic exhibitions. Her famed works have also been displayed on the illuminated billboards of Times Square, New York City. Rosselli hails from Italy, the world capital of art, and it was her upbringing around an environment which garnered strong interest, intuition, and opened her imagination. She recalls her time in Italy, even after moving to the United States.

Ever since migrating to the United States, Rosselli has embraced myriad opportunities on the doorstep of her professional career. It was the exposure to a free market that cherishes professionals with exuberant potential.

Finding your spot in a male-dominant sector

The sector of arts, culture, and motion picture is well dominant by males since its existence in time. Women creatives have managed to break in the sector with their works and had it more difficult than their male counterparts. Rosselli believes that more and more women artists need to be given opportunities for success.

Views of women artists lacking the benchmark of creative potential are baseless and have patriarchal roots. Creativity has no relation to gender, and all bias is subjective notions fueled by prejudice. Rosselli believes more platforms and organizations should surface, tailored especially at promoting women artists and their work.

In Conclusion

As an artist, Aurora Rosselli continues to define her artistic expression with an incessantly refined creative approach. She is one of the most effective artists of modern times whose creative prowess continues to be acknowledged in all centers of arts around the world.

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