Ana Mendieta's work on Silueta in Mexico is the perfect example of artists giving form to the immaterial, revealing hidden truths and speaking strongly on personal feelings. The imprint of her body in the rough looking ground covered in red paint is striking Silueta Piece. The red paint symbolizes the stain of oppression from her past in Havana, Cuba where she fled from the communist movement of Fidel Castro. She is well known in performance and landscape art. Many consider her works as feminist, as she uses her own body within her pieces. Much of what she creates uses natural elements creating the theme of earth and body, showing her fascination of life and death. Unfortunately her works in art was cut short by a fall from her New York apartment.
Paintings : Silueta's Empowerment Fire Burial
Bios: bio1 bio2
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When I was in grad school, we used to discuss her work all the time, wondering what would have happened if she wasn't killed (we all thought that her boyfriend killed her, but he news said that she "fell off the balcony")
ReplyDeleteThats what I was thinking! I thought it a little fishy that she "fell off the balcony" shortly after he moved in. Im sure her work would have been very interesting, be that it was very creative AND very bold.
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