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Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. She is considered one of the most influential Cuban-American artists of the post–World War II era.
Untitled (Rape Scene) is a color photograph documentation created from a 35mm slide by Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta. [1] She made it during an April 1973 performance while still a student at the University of Iowa. It is one of three photographs she created in reaction to the rape and murder of a woman on campus. [2]
Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) Rene Mederos (1933–1996) Adriano Nicot (born 1964) Amelia Peláez (1896–1968) Marta María Pérez Bravo (born 1969) Dionisio Perkins (1929–2015) Carlos Enrique Prado Herrera (born 1978) Wilfredo Prieto; Sandra Ramos (born 1969) Miguel Rodez (born 1956) Emilio Hector Rodriguez (born 1950) Baruj Salinas (born 1935)
Years after her death, specially since the Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective in 2004 [188] and the retrospective in the Haywart Gallery in London in 2013 [189] she is considered a pioneer of performance art and other practices related to body art and land art, sculpture and photography. [190] She described her own work as earth-body art.
Carl Andre (September 16, 1935 – January 24, 2024) was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks (such as Stone Field Sculpture, 1977, in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] and Lament for the Children, 1976, [2] in Long Island City, New York), to large interior works exhibited on the floor (such as 144 ...
Ana likes to run on the beach with her dog and isn’t afraid of taking a good walk with a pal. View this post on Instagram A post shared by A N A D E A R M A S (@ana_d_armas)
Ana Mendieta's "The Pregnant Woman": Mendieta explored the relationship between her body and nature in a series of performances from the 1970s. She utilized her bare body as a canvas for "The Pregnant Woman", pushing it against various objects like rocks and trees to make imprints.
Mendieta created her own arrangements and invented a new technique, one that allowed the harp to execute the difficult chromatic passages and percussive effects characteristic of tango music. She was influenced by Nuevo Tango— a sub-genre that combined tango, jazz, and modern classical, developed by Astor Piazzolla .