Carmen Herrera

At the time of her most recent exhibit, Herrera was a 101-year-old (still working), Cuban-born artist with a nearly seven-decade-long career, most of it in the United States.

Amarillo “Dos”, 1971.

“I believe that I will always be in awe of the straight line, its beauty is what keeps me painting.”

—Carmen Herrera

Herrera explored:

figure/ground relationship
positive and negative space
line and color
abstraction

FRIDAY, 1978

In 1975 Carmen Herrera began a series of seven paintings titled Days of the Week. Each painting evokes a sense of the distinctive character of the specific day. The seven works possess a sculptural presence, with black juxtaposed against vivid color, and the shapes and mechanics of balance vary from composition to composition. For Friday, Herrera added a spacer to the painting’s stretcher to increase depth. The orange shapes in this painting might be seen as the corners of two rectangular forms that have shifted apart and slipped off the edges of the canvas.

Task:

Using two pieces of construction paper, create a composition that illustrates a day of the week.

Think about positve and negative space and abstraction.

Carmen Herrera

At the time of her most recent exhibit, Herrera was a 101-year-old (still working), Cuban-born artist with a nearly seven-decade-long career, most of it in the United States.

FRIDAY, 1978

Task: Using two pieces of construction paper, create a composition that illustrates a day of the week. Think about positve and negative space and abstraction.

Task:

Using two pieces of construction paper, create a composition that illustrates a day of the week.

Think about positve and negative space and abstraction.