Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
I Learned the Hard Way
Image View:
Raking view to show the applied elements
Creator:
Mickalene Thomas (American painter, born 1971)
Location:
repository: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada) 2013.15.1-2
Location Note:
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
GPS:
45.4987-73.5801
Date:
2010 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
rhinestones; acrylic paint; enamel paint on panel
Technique:
collage (technique); painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
304 cm (height) x 243 cm (width)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); portrait; Post-black art
Description:
Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971) is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. This is a portrait of her mother, Sandra Bush, a former model in the 1970s. Rhinestones serve to as an added layer of meaning and a metaphor for artifice. Rhinestones accentuate specific elements of each painting, while subtly confronting our assumptions of what is feminine and what defines a woman, specifically black women. Thomas’s subjects are virtually always women of color; a means to portray and empower the women and celebrate their culture and beauty. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-THOMAS-FAFFM-ILH -A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

I Learned the Hard Way