Nancy Spero made the female experience central to her art and challenged aesthetic and political conventions, explored female sexuality, suffering and heroism. 
Spero’s lexicon was derived from an immersion in the history of images, notably from Egypt, classical antiquity, pre-history, and contemporary news media.
Her drawings from ancient mythologies and iconographies to produce her burlesque cast of pagan goddesses, Celtic fertility figures, and Amazon warriors, which she pulled from books on ancient art before manipulating and incorporating them into her own drawings and collages.