With all due respect, the people who chose Faith Ringold's very very cartoonish work "Flag is Burning" are probably covered with cartoons that they think are serious art.
Still: In a very concrete way, Faith Ringgold's "American People #18 (The Flag is Burning)" transforms two-dimensional, cartoon-like drawings of persons in association with the flag of freedom, this time dripping in blood, with the fatally injured man staunching the heart-wound in a way that mimics the Pledge of Allegiance -- this imagery and its directness hit me hard.
As I write this, the mental image is strong in me, though it was a couple days ago that I actually had once or twice viewed it.
The imagery, cartoon-like, is primitive and hits hard, and I -- with the image only in my mind -- am very moved by it.
Roy Lichtenstein, too, did Pop-Art at the very same time Faith Ringgold did her "American People" series. I love the work of Roy Lichtenstein.
I love comics and am a 76-year-old child.
Unapologetically.
Vassily Kandinsky wrote that a point on a paper or canvas can be art or the beginning of art.
Vassily Kandinsky's work -- in subtle mix of colors that evoke beautiful cave paintings -- moves me deeply.
I immerse myself in art of the middle ages, the Renaissance (Piero della Francesca being a favorite), the Flemish Renaissance, through the moderns (Braque, Picasso . . . German Expressionism, the Surreal, through Jackson Pollock).
I would compare in tone Faith Ringgold's work with Jacob Lawrence's 40-painting cycle, "The Migration Series" (which the Philip's Gallery on DuPont Circle (Washington DC)) and the New York Museum of Art share (the two museums each show 20, alternating years switching from the even-numbered to the odd-numbered, so between the two museums one can always see them all).
All sorts of visual art moves me deeply.
And a 76-year-old child does not consider himself too old to enjoy a comic. "What, me worry!"
"There is so much more to a great artist who just passed away at 93 years of age. Faith Ringgold shows us our own nation’s history of cruelty, especially to blacks, in flat, two-dimensional, dramatically accented warm colors that glare from the canvas.
The narratives are rich and the colors affix your mind.
I invite you especially to lovingly admire and meditate upon the images of American People Series #18 (The Flag is Burning, 1967) and #20 of the same series (Die, 1967), and to read in depth about this wondrous, deeply spiritual woman."
Thank you so much for honoring her.
With all due respect, the people who chose Faith Ringold's very very cartoonish work "Flag is Burning" are probably covered with cartoons that they think are serious art.
Hey, I used to enjoy comic books, too.
When I was a child. 😄
Derp: Point taken.
Still: In a very concrete way, Faith Ringgold's "American People #18 (The Flag is Burning)" transforms two-dimensional, cartoon-like drawings of persons in association with the flag of freedom, this time dripping in blood, with the fatally injured man staunching the heart-wound in a way that mimics the Pledge of Allegiance -- this imagery and its directness hit me hard.
As I write this, the mental image is strong in me, though it was a couple days ago that I actually had once or twice viewed it.
The imagery, cartoon-like, is primitive and hits hard, and I -- with the image only in my mind -- am very moved by it.
Roy Lichtenstein, too, did Pop-Art at the very same time Faith Ringgold did her "American People" series. I love the work of Roy Lichtenstein.
I love comics and am a 76-year-old child.
Unapologetically.
Vassily Kandinsky wrote that a point on a paper or canvas can be art or the beginning of art.
Vassily Kandinsky's work -- in subtle mix of colors that evoke beautiful cave paintings -- moves me deeply.
I immerse myself in art of the middle ages, the Renaissance (Piero della Francesca being a favorite), the Flemish Renaissance, through the moderns (Braque, Picasso . . . German Expressionism, the Surreal, through Jackson Pollock).
I would compare in tone Faith Ringgold's work with Jacob Lawrence's 40-painting cycle, "The Migration Series" (which the Philip's Gallery on DuPont Circle (Washington DC)) and the New York Museum of Art share (the two museums each show 20, alternating years switching from the even-numbered to the odd-numbered, so between the two museums one can always see them all).
All sorts of visual art moves me deeply.
And a 76-year-old child does not consider himself too old to enjoy a comic. "What, me worry!"
Thank you so much for turning me on to this artist Armand. I can't believe I didn't know about her?
Amazing tribute thank you Armand!
"There is so much more to a great artist who just passed away at 93 years of age. Faith Ringgold shows us our own nation’s history of cruelty, especially to blacks, in flat, two-dimensional, dramatically accented warm colors that glare from the canvas.
The narratives are rich and the colors affix your mind.
I invite you especially to lovingly admire and meditate upon the images of American People Series #18 (The Flag is Burning, 1967) and #20 of the same series (Die, 1967), and to read in depth about this wondrous, deeply spiritual woman."