See art by Mayra Alpízar | Carlota Berard | Jennifer Boe | Roz Bonnet | Luiza Brown | Nikoline Calcaterra | Judy Chicago | Selin Cileli | Maldoror Capvt Corvi | Maribel Cruz | Thomasin Durgin | Natalie Aniela Dybisz | Elvira | Anne Encephalon | Hélène Epaud | Quiara Z. Escobar | Fanni Fazekas | Pat Fish | Julie Gaw | Gina | Kat Grandy | Martina Hoffmann (1 & 2) | Jelena | Judy Jones | Margaret Kalms | Brina Katz | Lorraine Lamothe | Ria Lee | Sharon Lee | Lana Leitch | Carol Nathan Levin | Katy Luxion | Sarah McCutcheon | Isa Menzies | Megan Morris | M. Parfitt | Petra Paul | Ana Elena Pena | Melina Piroso | Elentye Paulauskas-Poelker | Leigh Radtke | Jacquelyn Rixon | Isa Sanz | Vladislav Shabalin | Nelson Soucasaux | Paula Speakman | Alexandra Steiner | Melina Szapiro | Von Taylor | Jean Tracy | Joseph Tonna | Jessica Wagner | Jennifer Weigel | Terry Wunderlich | Tamara Wyndham | New Guinea menstrual hut carving
Art of Menopause by Coni Minneci
Ancient Peruvian menstrual art
If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine (Italian edition) featured several of the above artists in an article about this museum and menstruation in 2003. The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine Dishy (Turkey) showed some of the artists in 2005 in articles about this museum.
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.


The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health



 "Portrait of a Shared Secret"

All art copyright 2008 Vladislav Shabalin
NEXT work: "Catharsis"
Below: The artist's signature in cursive Russian ("Shabalin Vladislav")
 

The artist writes,

I am a Russian artist and I have lived in Italy for many years, enough to become an Italian citizen. I have recently discovered the MUM on the Web and I would like to give my personal contribution to it, as a token of my admiration for Mr. Finley's idea and also to thank him for all the efforts he has done to carry it out.

My first work is called PORTRAIT OF A SHARED SECRET [above]. It is a picture (mixed technique on paper) I made long ago, in the summer 1997. I had known my girlfriend, who is now my wife, only for a few months. One morning she told me of a dream she had had, which she remembered quite clearly as it had left a strong impression on her. She was alone, standing, when blood started to flow copiously from her. It was a haemorrhage, not a normal menstruation, but she was not frightened. While the blood continued to flow, she lay down. It was strange and natural at the same time, and when she woke up she felt as if she had given birth to someone, to herself. In the attempt to translate her emotions into images, I made this picture and gave it to her. When I told her about the MUM, she agreed it was the place where the picture should be.

The second work, CATHARSIS [next page], is a small painted sculpture in Piasentina Stone (a typical stone of Friuli, the area where I live). I made it only a few weeks ago specially for the MUM. I thought of Russian traditional dolls (matrioskas) as symbols of the multiple secrets of women's nature, and wanted to combine the idea of immortality and endless reproduction suggested by the phoenix, the legendary and mysterious bird who is consumed in fire and rises from her (as she is undoubtedly female) own ashes. The matrioska and the phoenix stand also for the magic that I perceive, without totally understanding it, in the female body. The style of the painting in acrylic colour is meant to evoke the art of ancient civilizations and emphasize the continuity, through procreation, of the history of humanity. All these elements, and the menstrual blood, concur to represent a deeply felt need for catharsis and renewal.

Vladislav Shabalin

For some information on my work: www.easternartgallery.com

The artist's next work, "Catharsis."

Next artist: Nelson Soucasaux
See all the artists in the links in the left-hand column.

If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and are interested in showing it on these pages (it's free!), contact MUM


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