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This Art blends Indigenous traditions along with modern styles by using different types of media such as painting, digital art, and sculpture to explore their traditions and identity.
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Art Movement that is characterized by the raw emotion and painted with bold brushwork that were dramatic, expressive and intense color. It also rejected traditional composition. It emerged as a reaction against minimalism. These art often represented and expressed the personal anxieties from within.
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This movement revisited similar themes of Pop-Art and used mass media imagery and also the consumer culture in a form for critique.
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This piece is known for its social commentary on the racial stereotypes or is a cook named Joe in a subservient role as a form of commentary on the demeaning and often limited roles for Black people in America. You can see the blended techniques of his work. You can see bold line techniques and graffiti influence. Eyes and Eggs, 1983 acrylic, oil stick and paper collage on cotton drop cloth with metal hinges 119” x 97” The Broad, Los Angeles -
Gold Griot is rich in historical and cultural references. It is referencing to the traditional oral historical storytellers in West Africa. Used the Gold background as contrast and to show divinity and giving existence to the Black Figure. Celebrating Black cultural heritage in painting a dynamic visual story teller. Gold Griot 1984, Acrylic and oil stick on wood, 117” x 73”, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA -
Haring was also a social activist. This poster is designed with visual activism featuring a bright and radiant yellow figure bursting and kicking out of the closet with confidence and energy as it embodied the first National coming out day. This was published by National Gay rights activists. National Coming Out Day, 1988, offset lithograph 66” x 54.8” -
This worked emerged as a response during a very intense period of of frustration and crisis and devastated the LGBTQ+ community with the direct activism during the AIDS epidemic. The Reagan administration did not publicly mention AIDS until 1985, and many people died because of it. With lack of education and federal funding that lead to a spread of fear. Ignorance = Fear / Silence = Death: FIGHT AIDS ACT UP
New York: ACT UP, 1989. Offset printed poster. 24 x 43 in -
This art piece appropriates Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man drawing. By replacing the "ideal" male figure with an outline of herself (body) and made it purposely bigger than life as a form to challenge the European standard. She incorporates things from her reservation like the newspaper clippings. This serves as a statement to Native American Identity. The Red Mean: Self Portrait
1992
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This is a mixed-media piece bases on the design of the American Flag. You can see brand identities from major corporations. This was a critique on capitalism and touching on subjects like the consumer culture in the modern American lifestyle. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Made in America: McFlag, 1996, oil
and mixed media on 2 panel canvas with speakers and electrical
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This is part of collection of the Forge Project. It is an anti-war statement with strong symbolism in critiquing environmental destruction and war along with the impacts of colonialism through its strong and powerful imagery. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, War Horse in Babylon, 2005, O/C, 60” x 120” Flomenhaft Gallery, NYC