reminds me very much
of the prodigious
Sister Corita Kent
By the 1960s, she was using popular culture (such as song lyrics and advertising slogans) as raw material for her meaning-filled bursts of text and color.
Corita’s cries for peace in the era of Vietnam were not always welcome. In 1965 her "Peace on Earth" Christmas exhibit in IBM’s New York show room was seen as too subversive and Corita had to amend it.
However, her work continued to be an outlet for Corita’s activism—in her words:
"I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art."
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