Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Presentor: Monica Aissa Martinez



From last week’s presentations I was struck by Monica Aissa Martinez. Her works focusing on the human body caught my attention because of its detail and beauty. Her large paintings are sometimes made by casein and egg tempera, which is much diffident and unique compared to many other artist mediums. Martinez’s extraordinary approach to viewing the human body had led her to great success as a Chicana Artist. Her anatomical drawings help the viewer remember, we are all humans of the same species. Our insides are the same despite the color of our skin or origin of our ancestors. I relate to her work as I was once a pre med student, who studied anatomy. The human body is phenomenal and a machine on its own. Martinez recreates this using mediums to how human beauty. 

 artist in studio

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for mentioning that she paints with tempera! There really is so much to Martinez as an artist. She's very complex and it's hard to fit the entirety of an artist like that into just 5 minutes.

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