This Artwork Changed My Life: Ana Mendieta’s “Silueta” Series
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This Artwork Changed My Life: Ana Mendieta’s “Silueta” Series
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I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body. Having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence, I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (Nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the Universe. It is a return to the maternal source
Ana Mendieta
... See more"Ana Mendieta was an interdisciplinary artist, referring to herself as a sculptor. She is best known for her earth/body works, most specifically her now iconic Silueta Series, in which she used her body, and later the absence of the body, in the landscape as a way of connecting with nature and the universe. Spanning a period of 15 years, Mendieta
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