Ana Mendieta, Untitled Work from the Tree of Life Series, 1976 often lumped in with the earthworks artists because it has a natural touch performed and photographed in a natural setting  literally covered in earth and posing against a large tree; photographed in iowa and mexico  she was born in cuba and emigrated to the united states at an early age.   This pose is the errant pose; typical of early Christian art. She is communing with spirits, and making connections between her body and nature.

Ana Mendieta, Untitled Work from the Tree of Life Series, 1976

  • often lumped in with the earthworks artists because it has a natural touch performed and photographed in a natural setting 
  • literally covered in earth and posing against a large tree; photographed in iowa and mexico 
  • she was born in cuba and emigrated to the united states at an early age.  
  • This pose is the errant pose; typical of early Christian art. She is communing with spirits, and making connections between her body and nature.
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artwhat.

during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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