Abstract
Lesbian art, or if you prefer, the work of lesbian artists, offers the opportunity to reverse the gaze of the traditional author, which has been historically male and heterosexual. Works of art created by lesbian artists have a potential to function as a mirror for audiences by forcing them to reflect on what they see in the artistic representation and why they see what they see (and the same can be said, of course, about both authors and viewers).
What lesbian artists see through their lived experience certainly differs from the "ways of seeing" of heterosexual artists, both men and women. The article maps out and analyzes viewpoints of four Czech lesbian visual artists.