Object Details
- Artist
- Marcos Dimas, born Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 1943
- Exhibition Label
- The defiant figure in Pariah wears an indigenous amulet and has wavy black hair that suggests African ancestry. Dimas depicted his monumental figure using a range of paintings styles associated with abstract art that flourished in New York during and after the 1950s. He painted Pariah shortly after he cofounded Taller Boricua, an artists’ collective that shaped the cultural dimensions of the Puerto Rican civil rights movement in New York. These artists created works that affirmed the hybrid African and indigenous (or Taino) identity of Puerto Ricans.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © 1971-1972, Marcos Dimas
- 1971-1972
- Object number
- 2013.15
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65 x 54 in. (165.1 x 137.2 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure\bust
- Record ID
- saam_2013.15
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk754e3edcb-a303-48ec-8db3-f56381cb860a
