The artist Faith Ringgold, the subject of six-decade retrospective of more than 100 works at the newmuseum, is sorely overdue for canonical status, Peter Schjeldahl writes.
The most provocative curatorial coup in the Museum of Modern Art’s recent series of rehangings of its permanent collection has been the placement of a mural-size painting of an apparent, sanguinary race war, “American People Series #20: Die,” by the veteran American artist and, at times, political activist Faith Ringgold, alongside works by Pablo Picasso.
I single out “Die”—in which blood-spattered Black and white characters suffer impartially while doing scant depicted harm to one another —for the recuperative prominence that it grants Ringgold and because it represents an extreme instance of her forte of truth-telling from a fundamentally humane point of view.
Born in 1930 and raised in a middle-class home in Harlem, Ringgold is a driven, true artist of independent mind. Her mother, the fashion designer Madame Willi Posey, taught her needlework and took her on the first of her museum-haunting trips to Europe. Ringgold has said, “If I had to cite the single artist who inspired me the most, I would name Picasso.” She acknowledges his 1937 blockbuster “Guernica” as a particular influence on “Die.
A profound personal essay in the show’s catalogue by Michele Wallace, an important critic and one of Ringgold’s two daughters, expertly tracks her mother’s full-on mergers of racial content and art history, both African and European. These culminate in such pictorial epics as “We Came to America: The American Collection #1” . Black survivors of a distant, burning slave ship swim in seething waters toward a Black Statue of Liberty who is cradling a Black child.
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