Arrieta, Evelyn

For my presentation, I have chosen the artist Arlette Lucero. The work that she has done is full of bright colors, poetic expressions, and realism. I am simply intrigued by the way she expresses her culture and women in her art.

The reading for this week was, "Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore's Mask: The Mirror of Malinchismo" by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. I was astonished in knowing how even if women artists were showcased for the people, males maintained the outstanding number. At first, I believed that if women were given the opportunity to put up their artwork then there would be an equal male to female ratio, but that is not the case. The problem with males being the most recognized is how society would not acknowledge the challenges that Chicana's were facing (i.e meeting societal standards of becoming housewives). Then came the feminist movement but there still seemed to be an inequality due to class; this notion relates to how within the Chicano community, women were inferior to men in one way or the other. Men either saw women as a biological contribution or they saw women as a wife that provided for their needs. In either case, women of color experienced a lack of recognition, inferiority, and inequality.

The question that I am interested in asking is, ‘why is it that when women create their own path in expressing themselves, men view it as women becoming the feminine version of men?’