Sharipova et al. Space and Culture, India 2018, 6:2 Page | 113 https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v6i2.361 © 2018 Sharipova et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. RESEARCH OPEN ACCESS Tendencies in Women's Painting in Kazakhstan in the Context of Self-Identification Dilyara Safargaliyevna Sharipova, † Aigerim Tursynovna Yespenova, † Svetlana Zhumasultanovna Kobzhanova Ῐ and Raikhan Abdeshevna Yergaliyeva † Abstract This paper examines the phenomenon of women's pictorial art in Kazakhstan of the XX century. The analysis of the works by many authors (Maria Lizogub, Zeinep Tusipova, Almagul Ikhanova, Anzhelika Akilbekova) allows researchers to describe the specific nature of Kazakh women's painting. Analysing the personality of artists, their creative path, the authors reveal the style of the works and its importance for the development of particular art areas. Female artists overcame the barriers of social inequality declaring themselves as the leading representatives in the art and culture of Kazakhstan. At the same time, making an accent on the woman's substantial spiritual potential, they comprehended her as a keeper of hearth and home and the patriarchal way of life. This duality consists in the identification processes when the representation of female interacted with ethnic and cultural self-determination. Keywords: Women's Painting, Arts and Crafts, National Traditions, Ethnocultural Identification, Gender Aspects, The Socio-Cultural Situation, Kazakhstan † Department of Fine Arts of Institute of Literature and Art named after M. Auezov of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan, Kurmangazy str.29, 050010, Almaty * Corresponding Author, Email: dilyara_s_sharipova@mail.ru Ῐ The A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Koktem-3 microdistrict, 22/1,050040, Almaty