More Than an Ideological Contribution: with William Hanhausen
For over a century, Latino art has been conforming its own existence as one of the main currents of the creative canons of the United States
William Hanhausen
This genre presents itself more established every day thanks to the contribution of all Latino artists. Regardless of trends or preferences, and with a fantastic integration of all personal orientations and gender as part of one same culture, this genre offers a special site for the Latino women. Latinas complement the blend of four quintessential factors. The pre-Columbian culture where feminism as mother nature was highly recognized, the Americas native cultures where motherhood was considered the essence of lifetime, the Hispanic invasion in the continent and lastly the coexistence with the North American culture.
It is a great deal, at one point, to discuss the involvement of one gender in this genre for whom today’s fashioned equality should disregard or not considered.
The female contribution to this art genre is loaded with a frank pragmatic expressionism.
These are works plagued by a rebellion against public harassment and dissension that has proclaimed women constantly with a feeling of inferior and unreliable beings.
Today the image of these artists is conceived with power, standing on its own, with highly developed skills and great originality. These Latinas proclaim the American Latino dual-origin contribution to increasing respect and add value to the community and Latino art as a genre. Boasting and elevating all elements of a culture splendor and traditions that no one can ignore.
Latino women are one of the main pillars of this iconic genre, with an extraordinary capacity to reinventing themselves constantly by celebrating a strong legacy and continuous transformation of the sumptuousness and renewal of it with generations of creative talent and bold vision.
Women like Delilah Montoya, Xime Izquierdo Ugaz, Candida Alvarez, Maria Gaspar and Judy Baca, are outstanding contributors, among others, to the grandeur of this genre that values and underwrites all characters that have made their mission to be inclusive of all ideologies, colors and hues as a supplement to the community and the support of the Latino Art’s pallet.
