Most Rebellious Female Artists

2. Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954)

While the diversity of gender roles is a more common subject in the current art world, it was a very shocking theme at the beginning of the 20th century. But the surrealist artist and photographer Claude Cahun faced this controversial topic head on in her body of work. Between the 1920s and 1940s, she took a series of self-portraits in male clothes, using hairstyles and make-up to transform her image accordingly.