Lea Angel Cross
9/2/2017
Painting 1
Professor Zimmer
Judith Hernandez is a Los Angeles
based artist her works have been showcased around the world. She is one of the
few Latin American artists who have been featured in art galleries in Europe. Though
it is a fundamental and important part or American and western art heritage;
Latin American art is often ignored by western art galleries and excluded. Hernández
uses art to fight political and social oppression of minorities and particularly
Latin women. Often social injustice and oppression
are the subjects of her murals as well as depictions of the day to day life and
struggles of indigenous women and minorities. She has used her style to help many Chicano
social movements and organizations such as the United Farm Workers, and the
Royal Chicano air force art collective.
Judith Hernandez was born in 1948
and in 1964 as a high school student she was one of the first student ever to receive
the “Future Master Scholarship”. She studied under famous artists such as
Charles White a famed African American artist. Judith became one of the
founding members of “Los Four”. Los Four is a Chicano art and mural initiative
that spreads and showcases Latin American art, blurring the boundaries between
street art and fine art. Hernández’s style of art is quoted as “Her drawings
consistently portray the universal human figure, rather than an individual
portrait, and emphasize a visual vocabulary of human struggles over love,
trauma, memory, and Christianity’s interest in human ecstasy and grace”.
Works Cited
Hernández , Judith. Judith Hernández. 2006-2017, https://www.judithehernandez.com/.
Access 2 Sept.2017.
Otis College of Art and Design, https://www.otis.edu/alumni/judithe-hernandez
.Access 2 Sept.2017
I would love to see the names of the paintings! At the moment they seem very open to interpretation, so it would be cool to kind of have the artist directing my thought process on initial view of the paintings with the titles :)
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of Judith before but I'm very interested in her style of art because it is so expressive and bold in a physical sense but also in it's meaning/goal. Do you know what type of media she used mostly?
ReplyDeleteEven though all of the paintings are different, I perceived them at first as a collection because of the blues incorporated in almost all of the them.
ReplyDeleteI have also never heard of Judith before but her work is amazing. What I like is her strong symbolism represented in each painting. That along with her sense of color make these images a pleasure to look at.
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