“FAITH RINGGOLD” Pavan Kumar Vasa Paper 2 English Composition II Professor Monique Pappas August 22, 2017 Faith Ringgold was a renowned African-American artist, author, and activist took the African-American traditional art “Quilt Technique” to tell and interpret the stories of her life experiences in the black community. She took an active role to give greatness with her paintings in depicting the racism and feminism in American Society. Furthermore, Faith’s Works had a great creative impact on contemporary art which involving the social justice, gender inequality as well as accepting the Quilt as an art form. Faith Ringgold was born on October 8th, 1930 in Harlem, NY to Andrew Louis Jones and Willie …show more content…
Later she went to Europe and studied about Matisse, Monet, and Picasso. After her education, she began her career by painting landscapes, which were most similar to European style. Later, she changed to focusing on her own life experiences reflecting the fights and change all over the country, racial riots, feminism, social, and political activities, started drawing the bold images, with dark colors to represent the dark skin of African-Americans, and dark times she thinks that “As an artist or writer, you should never make something beyond from your own experiences.” (Ringgold F. M., 2010). Throughout her career, her work inspires from difficulties she faced and satisfying her life and lives around her. Today she works as a professor of Art at the University of California, but she still remembers her early as a black woman artist, says “I remember when I was young and I would go into a gallery to show my work, and the gallery dealer would look at my legs and not my art”. (Henderson, 2014). Faith Ringgold was a female artist who started inspiring the medium which was formerly referred as “women’s work” like sewn, weaving etc., into the serious art craft. As an author and artist, she received many awards from her books, artwork including NAACP Image Award. Furthermore, her works displayed in museums all over the world, including, Asia, South America, and the Middle …show more content…
Like “For the women’s House” was one of her first public exhibition and major work supporting women. This painting style emerged soon after her oil painting series of the American people and American Blacks during the 19th century for black women and to achieve the gender equality. “For the Women’s House” based on the interviews conducted prison inmates, but at the end, she just wants to use only women inmates because a showing of men the painting will reduce the effect of different kind of works mentioned in the painting. Faith in her biography mentioned that “My intention was to broaden women’s images of themselves by showing women in roles that have not been traditionally theirs… and to show the women’s universality by painting a work which crosses the lines of age, race, and class.” (Henderson, 2014). The painting divided into multiple triangles and each section describing the different kind of women race, age, class, and jobs. The jobs mentioned in each panel were men oriented jobs and nontraditional works for women during that period like the police officer, doctor, and construction and bus driver. Faith Ringgold main aim to inspire and give hope to women in future generations. Her style of the painting includes the Kuba triangles (Cubist) frames,