"I was encouraged to look around me and to paint what I saw. I painted my story, and it had a lot of angles to it. I was trying to explain how I saw life as a black person living in America, and I put things together that were not acceptable. A lot of people did not want these kind of paintings representing America in any sense, but I wanted to tell my story and what I sawā¦"
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On the Civil Rights Movement puncturing the image of the American Dream in in The Art Newspaper (June 5, 2019)
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Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold (October 8, 1930 ā April 13, 2024) was a painter, writer, mixed media sculptor and performance artist.
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