🛡 ( blaze net ) - 🛡 A artista e autora Faith Ringgold, conhecida 🛡 por seus tapetes narrativos que entrelaçavam arte com ativismo, morreu aos 93 anos. O falecimento de Ringgold, blaze netblaze netcasa 🛡 blaze net Nova Jersey no sábado, foi relatado primeiramente pelo New York Times.
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After earning her bachelor's degree in fine art 🛡 and education in 1955, Ringgold began teaching art in public schools while developing her own art. She later received a 🛡 master's degree in art from City College in 1959. Her early work was influenced by civil and racial unrest, and 🛡 had powerful political and social tones.
Série "The American People"
🛡 Entre 1963 e 1967, Ringgold portrayed fraught race relations in America in 🛡 a series of paintings titled "The American People Series." The series' final painting, "American People Series 20: Die," is a 🛡 vivid critique of the violent riots of the Civil Rights era. The painting, arguably the series' most famous, gruesomely depicts 🛡 a group of men, women and children brutally attacking one another. It is now part of the Museum of Modern 🛡 Art's permanent collection.
🛡 "I became fascinated with the ability of art to document the time, place, and cultural identity of the 🛡 artist," she told the Museum of Modern Art. "How could I, as an African American woman artist, document what was 🛡 happening around me?"
🛡 Ringgold's early work did not enjoy much success at the time, driving the mother of two to take 🛡 her activism to the streets for causes such as women's representation - especially of Black women - in mainstream art 🛡 exhibitions and collections. In 1970, Ringgold was arrested and charged with desecrating the American flag for co-organizing the "People's Flag 🛡 Show," an exhibition protesting against the Vietnam War, and for artists' First Amendment right to use the flag as material. 🛡
"They 🛡 didn't keep me in for long because the media was watching," she told the New York Times of her sentencing. 🛡
Quilts de Ringgold
🛡 Around the same time, Ringgold began incorporating new materials into her art. She experimented with sculpting in wood and 🛡 clay, but the dust triggered her asthma eased her to shift ...
