#FactFriday: #Beatles listening, #Warhol inspired, #activism artist, #silkscreen pop-art printing, coolest nun ever? Quite possible; move over Sally, Sister Corita did her thing! Corita Kents silkscreens were once compared to Andy Warhols; her banners and posters were featured at civil rights and anti-war rallies in the 1960s and 70s; she made the covers of Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post; and she even created a popular postage stamp. Yet today, Kent seems to have fallen through the cracks of #art #history. An exhibition created by Skidmore Colleges Tang Teaching Museum, and which opens later this month at Pittsburghs Andy Warhol Museum, aims to change that. Ian Berry co-curated Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, a retrospective of Kents 30-year career, and has a good idea of why her artistic reputation has taken a hit. He says, An artist was from New York. They were a man; they were an epic, abstract painter. And she wore a habit — she just didnt look like what the, sort of, movie version of an artist looked like. Read more about Sister Corita here: npr.org/2015/01/08/375856633/a-nun-inspired-by-warhol-the-forgotten-pop-art-of-sister-corita-kent And check out the upcoming Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent exhibition here: https://tang.skidmore.edu/index.php/posts/view/419
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:49:55 +0000
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