My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism

This paper maps themes (e.g. family, beauty, femininity, gender, blackness, representation) and artists from the Black arts and Feminist art movement who have been very influential when planning this senior art project. I specifically look at the works of Black feminist artists such as Betye Saar, F...

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Main Author: Tupper, Denise
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2013
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/182
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=scripps_theses
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spelling ndltd-CLAREMONT-oai-http---scholarship.claremont.edu-do-oai--scripps_theses-12982013-05-30T03:03:17Z My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism Tupper, Denise This paper maps themes (e.g. family, beauty, femininity, gender, blackness, representation) and artists from the Black arts and Feminist art movement who have been very influential when planning this senior art project. I specifically look at the works of Black feminist artists such as Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, and Mickalene Thomas who navigate themes from both movements. In my project I have painted a series of interpretive acrylic portraits of close friends and family members, all adapted from photographs. 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/182 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=scripps_theses © 2013 Denise Tupper Scripps Senior Theses Scholarship @ Claremont Art Painting Feminist Art Black Artist Black Feminism Family Art and Design Art Practice Fine Arts
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topic Art
Painting
Feminist Art
Black Artist
Black Feminism
Family
Art and Design
Art Practice
Fine Arts
spellingShingle Art
Painting
Feminist Art
Black Artist
Black Feminism
Family
Art and Design
Art Practice
Fine Arts
Tupper, Denise
My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism
description This paper maps themes (e.g. family, beauty, femininity, gender, blackness, representation) and artists from the Black arts and Feminist art movement who have been very influential when planning this senior art project. I specifically look at the works of Black feminist artists such as Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, and Mickalene Thomas who navigate themes from both movements. In my project I have painted a series of interpretive acrylic portraits of close friends and family members, all adapted from photographs.
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title My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism
title_short My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism
title_full My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism
title_fullStr My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism
title_full_unstemmed My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism
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