Monday, November 12, 2012

Sister Corita Kent

Sister Corita Kent is famous Internationally due to her spiritual art and her commitment to social justice. Her designs speaks her expression towards society and government. She freely expressed all the things not by speech but by designs. She also ran and Art department at Heart College until 1968 and afterwards shifted to Boston, Back Bay.

She made so many commissioned works- Book Jackets, Text book illustrations and her own serigraphs.
For her all the designs the freely used color and shapes speaks the voice of freedom. She used exuberant splashes of color to make her work introspective.
She also remained alive in social causes and for those causes she designed billboards and posters. Her random meaningful work was full of colors and multicolored designs attracts the viewer to just give a thought.
Her work is still being maintained by the Corita Art Center globally.








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