Week 2: CARA

CARA, an exhibition that showed the real authenticity of Chicano Art. CARA, like many other exhibitions, show an artists proud works as well as their talents. CARA is where Chicana/o's displayed their art but what's most important about this, it is where they finally had their work recognized. For a long time, the social art world would undermine the works of Chicana/o's and CARA was a place where their art work was able to be demonstrated. However, in CARA's displays, most of the work focused around men rather than women. The ratio of the representation of men-to-women was about 14-to-1! 

For along time, Chicana/o's have struggled to have their work shown and represented equally as 'white male' artist. The displays showed that there was still more work to be done, in which women also needed the equal representation men had, in art. The Chicana art is just as important as the Chicano's art, but through this ratio we see how men are more dominant and women are subordinate in the art world. We can link these ties to the 'machismo' though in Latin culture, where males are again, dominant. 

This case in which women were seen as subordinate in art continued when a group of women were painting a mural. People would not give women the same respect as men had, and when it came time to reveal the mural, it got attention, but not as much as CARA's exhibition did. I see this type of behavior happen a lot in households; where women are suppose to have the clothes, food, and house in order while the men sit back and relax. It upsets me to see young girls doing work that grown men should be able to do on their own but are too lazy to and say it's a woman's place to do so. This is why I have become more conscious at home and share the work with my sisters, everyone has the same standard of work. Hopefully, these stereotypes and social standards are erased.