The Impact of the Political Paintings of Faith Ringgold
Over 50 years later and we are still fighting about the same issues.
The woman chose her dress carefully and made sure her shoes matched perfectly. After all, she thought, this is an exhibition opening and there would be a lot of fancy people to impress. She inspected her appearance in the mirror, with one final glance, as she left her apartment. She was excited to be heading to the gallery in Manhattan. The elevator ride up to the gallery entrance only served to increase her feelings of expectation. She had heard a new artist was showing her solo exhibition, an event first for both of them.
As she stepped off the elevator she stood in front of the large painting that greeted her. She hadn’t known what to expect, but it defiantly wasn’t this. She could feel the heat flush her cheeks, as the emotions started to overwhelm her, and she couldn’t help but let out a loud screech. Confusion flooded her brain, then the rush of anger, as the surge of adrenaline pulsated through her veins.
The huge scale of the painting was confronting, but what she found most offensive was the black people and all that blood. The violence of the scene before her assaulted her mind, as she tried to understand what she was viewing. Black people and white people were fighting, while…
