24 pop art icons - Corita Kent

[cimorene]

Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American artist influential in the pop art movement, particularly with anti-war messaging in the 60s-70s, and head of the art department at Immaculate Heart college. Kent's primary medium was screenprint, or serigraphy, and she is known for artworks that make use of screenprinting to remix product packaging. Tensions between Kent's order and Catholic church leaders mounted throughout the 1960s due to their strong anti-war messages, with the order, the college, and her artwork being criticized as "liberal", "communist" and "blasphemous". As a result Kent returned to secular life in 1968 and most of her sisters left the college and order. Kent's work includes the 1985 United States Postal Service stamp Love and the 1971 Rainbow Swash, the largest copyrighted work of art in the world, covering a 150-foot (46 m) high natural gas tank in Boston. Her popularity was already great in the 1950s and she was commissioned for hundreds of print series, winning awards and recognition from the 60s through the 80s, but has received critical recognition for her role in the pop art movement only in recent years. [Paraphrased from Wikipedia]

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[zana16]

I wasn’t familiar with her. Thanks!

[phosfate]

She's also famous in rubber stamp history, both for her art and for teaching people to carve their own stamps. She made text-size alphabet sets carved into the ends of pencil erasers.

[cimorene]

Oh that is so cute! My mom used to do that - make our own stamps, not with pencil-tip erasers, but sometimes with block erasers - when I was a kid. So fun. I bought some blocks of the carvy stuff to make my own stamps to make my own wrapping paper a few years ago but I lost them without deciding on a motif.

[phosfate]

White erasers work really well too, and don't need backing, though of course the size is limited.

[cimorene]

Yeah, I remember using those!

[suchasnack]

These are so pretty and colourful, I love them! I wasn’t familiar with her either, thanks for making these icons and sharing them with us :)

[cimorene]

No prob! Thanks for the comment!