Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold is an African American artist who was born in New York city. She studied painting at New York City College, and she also got Master’s degree in fine art. Her great-great-great grandmother was a slave, and Ringgold also seems to experience prejudice against African American. Her family’s slave history and her experience might influence to her work of art called God Bless America. It was painted when White Americans had prejudice toward African American people, and the woman in the art means the image of contradiction. The art gives form to the immaterial-universal truths, personal feelings because we can get the dark feeling which is prejudice or contradiction. Also, we can see how the United States was not equal to everyone and terrible situation for African American through seeing the red and white stripes of the art was changed into the black stripes.http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/d67.htmhttp://negroartist.com/negro%20artist/faith%20ringgold/pages/faith%20ringgold%20The%20Flag%20Is%20Bleeding,%201967_jpg.htm