Hihi,

Has it felt like a long week? Yeah, for me too. Of course last week felt long as well but this week kind of caught me off guard, to the extent that I made other people at work confuse the days as well. Anyway, let's do what we do after a long week and enjoy some art together.

Let's start with Corita Kent, nun and collage/pop artist:

Her posters took the slogans and packaging of corporations and products of the time and repurposed them. In the mid-sixties a series of screenprints used Wonder Bread packaging to look at an everyday foodstuff in a new light. Kent reproduced the packaging in its trademarked bright colours, but inserted other quotes in ways that played off their branding. Where the slogan claimed Wonder Bread ‘helps build strong bodies,’ Kent uses Nehru’s writings on the importance of children’s blindness to barriers of class and caste. In that they may have life (1964) she adds to the bread’s bold packaging quotes from Gandhi: ‘There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread’ — and the account of a ‘Kentucky miner’s wife’ about the difficulties of feeding her five hungry children.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/07/the-political-pop-art-of-sister-corita-kent

Staying with the everyday, I love still lives and here's Maya Kopitseva who took them as her form:

https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/still-life-artists/maya-kopitseva

Finally, it is never a bad time to reread The Toast's Western Art History series, here are some muses dejectedly performing their duties:

i don’t care WHAT it looks like

im not the muse of turning around just because you told me

https://the-toast.net/2016/02/16/paintings-of-the-nine-muses-dejectedly-performing-their-duties/

Happy Friday everyone,

A xx.