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11 paź 2019 · A Native American of French-Cree, Shoshone, and Salish blood, New Mexican artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith creates paintings and drawings that reflect her upbringing in a household where art and horses were equally important.
She depicts a soldier with wings that appears to be riding the horse. At first glance the red and blue seem to represent the United States of America, but when you take a closer look at the top of the page under the blue it states, "peace." The display of red could be a representation of all the lives that were lost.
30 kwi 2018 · Her “The Red Mean: Self-Portrait” is marked by the outline of her body, traced directly onto newspaper pages. Her pose, actually a double portrait of superimposed outlines, is a direct quotation of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Vitruvian man” c. 1492.
24 cze 2020 · The alternating bands of historic images of Native Americans used in a reservation community service notice bear the stain-like drips of bloodred paint, which serve as an evocative device throughout Smith's I See Red series to call up issues of history, identity, race, and rage.
Compare Famous Names with The Red Mean: Self Portrait, also painted by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. What references to Native American culture can you identify in the two paintings? What references to Euro-American culture has the artist included? How are these two artworks similar and how are they different?
In The Red Mean: Self-Portrait, Smith wickedly re-presents Leonardo da Vinci’s Study of Human Proportion in the Manner of Vitruvius, ca. 1490, replacing his drawing of an ideal man ensconced in a perfect circle with her own outline covered by an Indian medicine wheel, a device traditionally used to mark the changing seasons. By deftly ...
Anchored by beautifully etched likenesses that are bathed in the colors of a sunrise, this image references the historical Miraj paintings of the visionary night journey of Prophet Muhammad. As...
