Featured Art: “La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo Chicano Rights” (1976)

Jessica Shakarian

Article by Jessica Shakarian

La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo Chicano Rights

La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo Chicano Rights

This picture stands out among her other equally amazing works as a piece of art that takes a powerful religious figure in Mexican (and Latin American) culture, the Virgin Mary, and takes the conception of her from being a historically passive woman being placed on a pedestal, to being a modern woman and taking charge of her own life. Not only is she taking religion into a modern world, she is taking women in religion and saying that we play an integral role too, and we won’t be ignored.
As a solo artist and member of Las Mujeres Muralistas, an influential San

Ester Hernandez

Ester Hernandez

Francisco Mission district Latina women’s mural group in the early seventies, her career has marked her as a pioneer in the Chicana/Chicano civil rights art movement.

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12 Responses to “Featured Art: “La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo Chicano Rights” (1976)”

  1. patti smith Says:

    I LOVE THIS PICTURE AND THE CONCEPT BEHIND IT. ITS GOOD TO SEE THE YOUNGER GENERATION FIND THESE EXTRAORDINARY ART PIECES FOR[ THE REST OF US.

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