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Chicana art emerged as part of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s. It used art to express political and social resistance [1] through different art mediums. Chicana artists explore and interrogate traditional Mexican-American values and embody feminist themes through different mediums such as murals, painting, and photography.
Women artists in the Chicano movement highlighted not only the struggles that Chicanos faced, but struggles that were specific to Chicanas. The Chicano art movement was a platform for Chicanas to speak about their struggles even when it was difficult, with boundaries within the Chicano movement itself and being excluded from the feminist movement.
Yreina Cervantez (born 1952) is an American artist and Chicana activist who is known for her multimedia painting, [1] murals, and printmaking. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, [2] and her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [3] The Mexican Museum, [4] the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Chicano Art Movement aids in portraying and focusing on the discrimination and treatment of Mexican Americans during this time. The Chicano Art Moment led to the popularity of murals as an art medium as it was more accessible for the artist and for people to see the art. [8] "The Great Wall of Los Angeles" made by Chicana artist Judy Baca
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (or CARA) was a traveling exhibit of Chicano/a artists which toured the United States from 1990 through 1993. [1] CARA visited ten major cities and featured over 128 individual works by about 180 different Chicano/a artists. [2] The show was also intended to visit Madrid and Mexico City. [3]
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood was born in Sacramento, California, the eleventh child born to a Chicana (Mexican-American) mother and father of Huichol Indian descent. [3] Her family, herself included, were all migrant field workers in California, and due to her father's legal status, when said fields were raided by what was then known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), he would ...
Santa Barraza (born April 7, 1951) is an American mixed-media artist and painter who is well known for her colorful, retablo style painting. [1] A Chicana, Barraza pulls inspiration from her own mestiza ancestry and from pre-Columbian art. [1]
Barbara Carrasco (born 1955) is a Chicana artist, activist, painter and muralist. She lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work critiques dominant cultural stereotypes involving socioeconomics, race, gender and sexuality, and she is considered to be a radical feminist. [1] Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. [2]