Plastic empirical evaluation of female emotionality on two-dimensional plane

"Female Emotionality" is an important feature that differentiates woman from man and shapes perspective on life. The woman, who has a more sensitive disposition than her opposite sex, experiences all kinds of emotions more intensely. In certain periods of history, the particular abilities of women were praised; however, the women who were seen praise worthy have been marginalized and trivialized. Therefore, the negative perception against this gender has cause demotional deformation in many women. The negative perception towards women has been scrutinized by scientists in terms of cause-effect relationship while it has also become an important issue for artists. The woman, who has become an important image for the artists, has been seen as an aesthetic image throughout the history of art. Undoubtedly aesthetic structure of female body made her an important image of art. As a result of the development of technology and socialchange, woman has become a sexual objectand her use as an object without emotions has become widespread in the patriarchal art. At the beginning of the 20th century, the awareness created in women led them to reach the status of artists. The aim of this study is to reveal the fact that woman is not only a pictorial image but also an emotional being. A literature review was made for this study, which focuses especially on women and the idea was supported by the practices formed in a plastic manner. The first part of the study examined the physiological and sociological structure of woman and treated her place in the historical process where as the second part investigated the emotional disposition of women is. The third part of the study is about how women's image have been addressed in the history of art and how the women artists have approached this issue; in the fourth part; original paintings on canvas were studied and their painterly analysis was made.