thebusylilbee:

guillotine-operator:

beforesunset2004:

I always get so fucking mad when I remember that it’s actually a 16-year-old Algerian girl who influenced BOTH Picasso and Matisse. and. No one gives a rat’s ass about her work which was very focused on women and nature. History -or people dare I say- didn’t bother to remember her name because she was a young Algerian woman and no one cares about Maghrebi/Arab women. unlike P*casso & M*tisse who both became legends, almost gods both during their lives and after their deaths, no one knows her.

Her name was Baya Mahieddine.

Here’s her biography on the Mathaf encyclopedia of modern art and the arab world.

btw I think it’s also good to point out that by the time Baya started working Picasso and Matisse had already enjoyed fame in the art world for several decades so yeah it’s not like they stole her entire career… Matisse’s last years of work do seem to owe her a lot though !!