When women were always the other important ones

Abstract

Chadwick and Courtivron analyzed in their work The others important the creative space generated between those artists who were couple. Facing the traditional historiography where the creativity was described as the individual lonely battle (usually a man), these women researchers considered that in couple artists the interrelations of their lives and work will make the influence to be mutual. Nevertheless, the work of the woman artist is still being interpreted as dependent of the male part of the couple.
In the Spanish contemporary Art History this situation was emphasized as the consequence of the sociocultural conditions of the Francoist Period, in which names as Magda Bolumar were made invisible, although this happens further than this chronological period affecting even to 21st Century artists as Patricia Gadea.