Today we attended the last museum we'd be visiting this intensive! It was the Toledo Museum of Art, and while we were already familiar with the artwork there, looking at it through a different lens really changed our perspective there. The first thing I did upon arriving at the museum was find the Wendy Red Star art pieces that I had researched last week. I found them and honestly was sort of in awe at how pretty they were. These photographs by Red Star are a series titled "Four Seasons." In these photographs, Red Star inserts herself surrounded by one-dimensional plastic and cardboard cutouts of animals and flora and fauna. By doing so, Red Star is able to comment to America's tendency to make up one-dimensional stereotypes and narratives about Native American culture. Red Star, a Native American woman, is able to use her art work to depict Native Americans in a way that is different than what is seen in American films, literature, and culture in general. According to the museum, "Four Seasons poses important questions about the complexity underlying Native American identities and who owns representation," which greatly relates to what I am trying to convey about depictions of colored people in this independent study.
Today I was able to look at an art piece that directly relates to my theme of the depiction of colored people in art, and Red Star was able to show how she believes Native Americans are depicted in America, which is an entirely different perspective than what I have typically been exploring.
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