Goldman & Lopez Week 3

In Shfira M. Goldman’s essay, The Iconography of Self Determination: Race, Ethnicity ,and Class, she bring the focus of her art and looks at things with more a social perspective.  She mentions the movement of the Chicano art, from its first states of the movement in the 1960’s to how it is now in the United States. Chicano artists are now celebrating their culture, and ethnicity more, showing it through with art. Goldman states, although it may be extremely difficult to achieve and maintain your foundation of your ethnicity in a society that may not support it fully, they must not give up.  Goldman discuses many artists and their work in her essay, one of them being, Yolanda M. Lopez.

The image I picked was Guadalupe: Victoria F. Franco, from the Guadalupe series, because its saying so much in just one frame. First we see that although it is an older woman, she is still in work clothes, which shows that she has stayed a strong woman, providing for her family. Second, she has just caught and killed a snake which in some ways shows that she is strong on the inside too, not fearful of anything in her way. And third, she is resting on the cape of La Virgin De Guadalupe surrounded by a shining gold light. This women is a perfect example of someone who clearly did so much for her family and so much for her culture.