The experience of viewing this piece compelled me to go home and do some research on these distinct pieces. I found several websites that uncovered the history of this art work. I discovered many other pieces that I admired. The individualality of each piece make them something special. Nothing could compare to the fascination I had with the Gnathia-Ware art I encountered at the museum.
Since the very beginning of African civilization, hairstyles have been used to convey messages to the greater society. In nearly every West African culture if unkempt hair was present that particular individual would have been considered unattractive or dirty. Hair maintenance was aimed at creating a sense of beauty. Hair provides women with a means of representing themselves and negotiating their place in the world. Furthermore, what women do and say through their hair care can shed light on how members of a cultural group use hair more broadly as a signifier of status.
In chapter 11 of the book Sisters in the Struggle edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin, the contributing author Cynthia Fleming uses the life experience of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson to detail women’s role in the Black Panther movement. Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson is introduced to the reader as a strong black woman whose role within the black power movement became public example to the involvement that most women played in the struggle for equal rights. Fleming essay of this prominent SNCC leader demonstrates the increasing militant role that is bestowed upon women of the era. Fleming uses Robinson’s story to deconstruct claims by male Black Power advocates that women in the movement were just doing a “man’s job”.
Chicano literature chronicles the lives and experiences of Mexican Americans in the United States, and is used as a cultural education tool to keep the Chicano heritage alive through text. Although there have been many different Chicano authors, most Chicano literature revolves around themes of culture and Mexican history and issues with identity and cultural discrimination. Many Chicano authors have used writing as a vehicle to express themselves and have a sense of representation that they would not normally be entitled to. In Luis Omar Salinas’ poem Aztec Angel, he uses vivid imagery to paint a picture of what his socio-political complaint is all about. Before delving into Aztec Angel, closer examination of Chicano literature will serve as an excellent primer for understanding how Salinas felt when writing the piece.
When I proceeded to my first exhibit I was, honestly, mildly amused. As I examined the room filled with artwork decorating the walls, I could not locate a painting that would seize my attention until; I walked through the door and into another part of the exhibit. In this room I saw a painting that did just that, ravished my senses, but unbeknown to me this would be a regular occurrence for the duration of my visit. Walking through the different exhibits was captivating, with some causing me to feel deep emotion in just observing them. The sculptures were magnificent being able to pay close advertency to the detail.
While, white working women have just recently come out into the public arena to protest their beliefs, African American women have extended their work as mothers into their communities as “protectors of the race” (265). Krauss includes an African American woman, Cora Tucker, who makes the correlation between environmental issues to not only power, but
The pain and suffering in her life served as the main source for her inspritation. Frida artistically engaged in reviving her cultural identity by emphasizing her Mexican heritage. She included her beliefs and ideas in her work. Frida’s career will be compared and analyzed through the Holland’s Theory of Personalities in Work Environments and in order to do that, her life events must be examined and one must understand her family, her childhood, her accident, her stormy marriage to Diego Rivera, all key elements in her career. Her Family Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo (1872-1941) was born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo in Germany.
Art gives ideas of how people can change or add new ideas to their dances and performances which is based on their cultural background and how art greatly impacts culture. Art has many interpretations to many people. It’s like that saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Everyone has their own idea of what they think the picture means and exhibits to them. This reminds of me of all the paintings and sculptures I saw in the Zimmerli art museum and how the Russian and European art influenced what
The emergence of the Civil Rights Movement reflected the African American endeavor to integrate into American society as citizens with equal rights. Politically, it was seeking the right to vote; economically, it was the right to rise above abject poverty; and socially, it was the right to have desegregated good education, desegregated housing policies, and to use desegregated public means of transportation. African American writers increasingly reflected this huge turmoil in their writings, and although the target was still integration, it was reflected through the new prism of the Civil Rights
Abstract “Belief in the afterlife was of central importance to slave converts, who ascribed double meanings to heaven and hell, as places to which the dead would go, and as metaphors for freedom and slavery.” Many blacks had a vision and believed that things would get better after the war. They also believe that they would gain freedom and have a better life once they continue to fight for the many things that they believed in,” (Gin, K. 2010). Progression of the African Americans For many years there have been opinions concerning the progress about the culture of African Americans. In this research paper there will be discussion about the many issues that this culture has experienced for years. While African American history is educational,