Ana Mendieta
Sus más famosas obras de arte que se conoce como la serie silueta. Estas obras se caracterizan por el uso de materiales abstractos, el cuerpo y la tierra. Comenzó esta serie cuando ella regresó a Cuba por primera vez después de 18 años de haber sido exiliada. Ella viajó entre Estados Unidos, México y Cuba hacer arte. Hubo más de un centenar de diferentes piezas de la serie, y se utilizan barro, arena y otros materiales naturales como hojas y sangre para realizar sus impresiones corporales y siluetas.
This series is what made her famous. At this time, women were being abused and Ana wanted to bring the violence and abuse to the forefront. While making these works of art, she envisioned the female body as a primal source of life and sexuality. She expressed the pain and raptures of cultural displacement, resonates with visceral metaphors of death, rebirth, and spiritual transformation.
Esta serie es lo que la hizo famosa. En este momento, las mujeres estaban siendo abusados y Ana quiso darle un respiro a la violencia y el abuso a la vanguardia. Al hacer estas obras de arte, se prevé que el cuerpo femenino como fuente primordial de la vida y la sexualidad. Ella expresa el dolor y el éxtasis de desplazamiento cultural, resuena con metáforas viscerales de la muerte, el renacimiento y la transformación espiritual. For this series, Ana used her naked body to explore and connect with the earth. The pieces were based upon the heritage of her lost homeland and the feeling of being uprooted. Her art was the result of struggling with her sense of exile. She made sculptures from all different types of materials. She wanted the degree of rawness and messiness in her artwork. She engaged her body in an “ongoing dialogue” with nature, investing her image with spirituality through private rituals of Santeria
Her art impacted the human perception of life, spirituality, and the connections between body and natural world. Through her art, Ana created narrations of
This series is what made her famous. At this time, women were being abused and Ana wanted to bring the violence and abuse to the forefront. While making these works of art, she envisioned the female body as a primal source of life and sexuality. She expressed the pain and raptures of cultural displacement, resonates with visceral metaphors of death, rebirth, and spiritual transformation.
Esta serie es lo que la hizo famosa. En este momento, las mujeres estaban siendo abusados y Ana quiso darle un respiro a la violencia y el abuso a la vanguardia. Al hacer estas obras de arte, se prevé que el cuerpo femenino como fuente primordial de la vida y la sexualidad. Ella expresa el dolor y el éxtasis de desplazamiento cultural, resuena con metáforas viscerales de la muerte, el renacimiento y la transformación espiritual. For this series, Ana used her naked body to explore and connect with the earth. The pieces were based upon the heritage of her lost homeland and the feeling of being uprooted. Her art was the result of struggling with her sense of exile. She made sculptures from all different types of materials. She wanted the degree of rawness and messiness in her artwork. She engaged her body in an “ongoing dialogue” with nature, investing her image with spirituality through private rituals of Santeria
Her art impacted the human perception of life, spirituality, and the connections between body and natural world. Through her art, Ana created narrations of