🍋 ( betano da dinheiro ) - 🍋 A artista e autora Faith Ringgold, conhecida 🍋 por seus tapetes narrativos que entrelaçavam arte com ativismo, morreu aos 93 anos. O falecimento de Ringgold, betano da dinheirobetano da dinheirocasa 🍋 betano da dinheiro 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 usarembetano da dinheirovoz como 🍋 ferramenta de mudança social", disse Dorian Bergen, Presidente das ACA Galleries, que representavam Ringgold há quase três décadas, betano da dinheiro um 🍋 comunicado fornecido à betano da dinheiro . "Sentiremos muitobetano da dinheirofalta e continuaremos nos comprometendo a continuar essa legacy compartilhando seu 🍋 trabalho, filosofias e vida com o mundo."

🍋 Ringgold, nascida betano da dinheiro 1930 betano da dinheiro 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. 🍋

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 ...