'Now You See Us': Tate Britain celebrates 400 years of ignored female artists

The exhibition at Tate Britain showcases trailblazing female artists such as Angelica Kauffman, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Mary Beale.

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00:03 This exhibition charts the road that women artists over 400

00:20 years have been on, acting as professionals in a society that

00:24 didn't expect that of them.

00:26 They were constantly told that they couldn't and shouldn't.

00:29 And I think in every single room of this exhibition,

00:31 you have women who are proving the precise opposite.

00:34 They dared, and they were determined,

00:36 and they were brilliant, and forged successful careers.

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00:42 We have 110 women artists in this show,

00:56 spanning 400 years, 238 works.

01:00 And we still don't cover all the women

01:02 who were working as professionals

01:06 in that time span.

01:07 I think the big takeaway is just how many women artists there

01:11 were.

01:11 I think that even specialists coming to this exhibition

01:15 will walk away having discovered a new name that they'd never

01:18 heard of before.

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