Who is Yolanda Lopez? What is her identity? What are her interests? Discuss the Chicano movement and what role she played in it as a Chicana artist. What themes does her work deal with?

Figure 1: Coatlicue, c. 1500, Mexica (Aztec), found on the SE edge of the Plaza mayor/Zocalo in Mexico City, basalt, 257 cm high (National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)Figure 2 Yolanda Lopez Nuestra Madre, 1981-88, from the Guadalupe series.Acrylic and oil paint on masonite, 4 x 6 feet. Yolanda López.Compare and contrast the statue of Coatlicue with a contemporary rendering of Coatlicue by Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez called Nuestra Madre, which is part of a larger series called the Guadalupe series.Read the article I assigned about Coatlicue Links to an external site., and then read the following articles to familiarize yourself with Lopez and her work Nuestra Madre: 1. Give a short visual and historical analysis of the Coatlicue statue. Consider questions like: Who made it? Why was it made? What aspect of Mexica culture does it represent? What was its function? Why was she important? 2. Give a short visual and historical analysis of Nuestra Madre by Yolanda Lopez. Consider the same questions but this time consider the artist. Who is Yolanda Lopez? What is her identity? What are her interests? Discuss the Chicano movement and what role she played in it as a Chicana artist. What themes does her work deal with? (feminism, Indigenous ancestry, machismo, colonialism, etc). 3. Compare and contrast the two different renderings of Coatlicue. What are some similarities and what are differences? 4. Do you think Yolanda’s work is an example of cultural continuityLinks to an external site.? Why or why not? (for questions 1 & 2 refer to this document for help Visual and Historical Analysis Guidlines-1.pdf )Download Visual and Historical Analysis Guidlines-1.pdf )