A new apartment building in Providence, Rhode Island, has murals on three sides of the first floor.
They depict three noted female artists.
Yayoi Kusma is an avante-garde Japanese sculptor and painter. She is one of the most renowned living artists working today. Muralist Fu'una chose to feature Kusama's iconic black and yellow polka dots, which feature throughout her mixed media practice.
During the 1960s Alma Thomas emerged as an exuberant colorist, abstracting shapes and patterns from the natural world around her. She was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. Muralist Joanna Vespia portrayed Thomas in monochrome contrasting with the bright colors the artist often used.
Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. She is best known for her paintings of the New York skyline, radical and enlarged flowers, and the New Mexico landscape where she lived for the later part of her life. Muralist Fu'una juxtaposed a late portrait of the artist depicted in a wool gaucho hat and black clothes against a detail view of an earlier 1945 painting.
Linked to Monday Mural.
8 comments:
Good ones, Jack.
The O'Keefe one is my favourite.
These are great murals all...too bad the O'Keeffe had to have that vent included...but it does speak of her interest in looking closely at things...not to mention her own visage is special.
Jack, you found three wonderful murals honoring important women artists.
You found three lovely murals on that apartment building, Jack. They are all so colorful and show three important women who have actually made a name for themselves. I especially like the Thomas mural because the blouse she is wearing is even more like her art than the tiles she is seen painting in the mural.
Impressive works of art.
All three of them are fabulous, but my favourite is the second one. Thanks for participating in Monday Murals Jack.
Every one of these is wonderful.
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