This mixed media was created by Laura Alvarez. When she did
this art piece she focused on embedding this woman on domestic fabrics. The
woman who inspired this piece of mixed media was her mother. This piece of
mixed media comes from the "Post Mestiza Handbook." This piece of
artwork was done with acrylic and watercolor on paper on kitchen cabinet door
(L.AlvarezArt Web, 1996). What stands out from this art piece is that she
placed a woman on a piece of domestic fabric something that Yolanda M. Lopez
was trying to divert from. In the book Yolanda
M. Lopez, the author mentions how Yolanda drifted from referencing places
in her art pieces of Tres Mujeres. This
is a huge difference compared to what Laura Alvarez did in these pieces that
were included in the handbook. What Yolanda M. Lopez focused in her pieces was
to "forego a narrative reference that would locate the women in a specific
location (Yolanda M. Lopez, pg. 69)."
Although Laura used domestic fabrics as the background of the mixed media art
pieces, it fit the art piece well giving it a more traditional feel to it and
placing it on a fabric that most artists would want to drift from being that it
falls under "stereotyping women."
Sources: https://lauraalvarezart.wordpress.com/mixed-media/
Yolanda M. López, Karen Mary
Davalos, A Ver: Revisioning Art History, Volume 2
July 2008
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