Heresies are the magazines that Harmony Hammond helped create with other feminist women. This magazine talks about women’s rights, feminist art, and politics; it brought awareness to social changes that needed to take place at that time. Hammond is known for her “semi-abstract imagery,” which “alludes to both personal and political content. More recently, she has developed mixed-media paintings, incorporating roots, hair, leaves, straw, leather, and other evocative found objects” (National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2014). Below is a picture of a bag Harmony created. It is noticeable that a trash-bag-like material is used to create the bag. Along with other trash like materials and possibly some fabric. This piece shows that anything
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Harmony stated:
Strips of fabric were braided according to traditional braided rug techniques, but slightly larger and thicker in scale, coiled, stitched to a heavy cloth backing, and partially painted with acrylic paint—the “braided rug” literally and metaphorically becoming “the support” for the painting. (Sackler, 2015)
These floor pieces removed art from the walls and brought a reconfigured and distorted approach to art. Feminism brought a new perception to women’s artwork.
Floorpiece VI https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/assets/system-images/remote/https_d1lfxha3ugu3d4.cloudfront.net/fab/images/307.832.jpg
Floorpiece VI, almost looks three dimensional, as if it expanding off the floor, it is amazing to know that the fabric was found in the trash, yet it is braided together so beautifully that such material seems to belong together. The piece itself speaks volumes about art; it illustrates how art can be made using any material, anywhere, anyway, and using new and old techniques. Hammonds art and accomplishments expose how far women have come in the art world and in general, notwithstanding gender roles, although it took decades to get so
Harmony stated:
Strips of fabric were braided according to traditional braided rug techniques, but slightly larger and thicker in scale, coiled, stitched to a heavy cloth backing, and partially painted with acrylic paint—the “braided rug” literally and metaphorically becoming “the support” for the painting. (Sackler, 2015)
These floor pieces removed art from the walls and brought a reconfigured and distorted approach to art. Feminism brought a new perception to women’s artwork.
Floorpiece VI https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/assets/system-images/remote/https_d1lfxha3ugu3d4.cloudfront.net/fab/images/307.832.jpg
Floorpiece VI, almost looks three dimensional, as if it expanding off the floor, it is amazing to know that the fabric was found in the trash, yet it is braided together so beautifully that such material seems to belong together. The piece itself speaks volumes about art; it illustrates how art can be made using any material, anywhere, anyway, and using new and old techniques. Hammonds art and accomplishments expose how far women have come in the art world and in general, notwithstanding gender roles, although it took decades to get so