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sexismandthecity:

Yolanda López
Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe

In a statement provided by López, she writes that it [Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe] is

“an investigation of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a powerful female icon.” In the year the drawing was made, López wrote “Essentially, she [the Virgin of Guadalupe] is beautiful, serene and passive. She has no emotional life or texture of her own…..Because I feel living, breathing women also deserve respect and love lavished on Guadalupe, I have chosen to transform the image. Taking symbols of her power and virtue I have transferred them to portraits of women I know….As Chicanos we need to become aware of our own imagery and how it functions. We privately agonize and sometimes publicly speak out on the representation of us in the majority culture. But what about the portrayal of ourselves within our own culture? Who are our heroes, our role models?”