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.
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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