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A artista e autora Faith Ringgold, conhecida 🏵 por seus tapetes narrativos que entrelaçavam arte com ativismo, morreu aos 93 anos. O falecimento de Ringgold, bwin 002 bwin 002 casa 🏵 bwin 002 Nova Jersey no sábado, foi relatado primeiramente pelo New York Times.
🏵 "Faith deixa um legado impactante de ativismo e advocacia 🏵 pela diversidade e inclusão que marcou profundamente o mundo da arte, inspirando incontáveis outras pessoas a usarem bwin 002 voz como 🏵 ferramenta de mudança social", disse Dorian Bergen, Presidente das ACA Galleries, que representavam Ringgold há quase três décadas, bwin 002 um 🏵 comunicado fornecido à bwin 002 . "Sentiremos muito bwin 002 falta e continuaremos nos comprometendo a continuar essa legacy compartilhando seu 🏵 trabalho, filosofias e vida com o mundo."
🏵 Ringgold, nascida bwin 002 1930 bwin 002 Harlem durante o Renascimento de Harlem, draws inspiration from 🏵 the tumultuous social realities she lived through. As a student, her formal initiation in the arts was almost curtailed by 🏵 the City College of New York's regulations of the time, which restricted women to specific majors - art not being 🏵 one of them. However, Ringgold's determination led her to strike a deal with a school administrator: her art studies were 🏵 contingent upon primarily enrolling in the school of education, where women were allowed.
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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.
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"They 🏵 didn't keep me in for long because the media was watching," she told the New York Times of her sentencing.
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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 ...
