Artists Depicting Home

Marc Chagall- Russia• ‘I and the Village’

1911• Narrative self-

portrait about his childhood memories of living in Vitebsk, Russia.

• Contains images of Russian landscape, animals, and symbols from folk stories.

Frida Kahlo- Mexico• ‘Self Portrait

along the boarder between Mexico and the United States’ 1932.

• Frida spent a lot of time in the USA but her heart belonged to Mexico.

Paul Gauguin- France• ‘Miraculous

Source’ 1894• Image of life in

tropical Tahiti which is where Gauguin found most of his best inspiration and decided to live out his final days of life.

Faith Ringgold- USA• ‘Tar Beach’

1988• Faith

Ringgold would create mixed-media quilts that told the story of her childhood and images of home.

Katsushika Hokusai- Japan

• ‘Mitsui Shop on Suruga Street in Edo’ 1831• One of the most well known Japanese artists. • Famous for creating images of traditional Japan from the Edo

period.

Lampu Kansanoh- Thailand

• ‘Family Day’ 2011

• An oil painting of her family eating together at home.

Romare Bearden- USA

• ‘The Block’ 1971- About the street block of Harlem, New York that he adopted as his home.

Creative Family Trees

• Artist: Isabelle Arsenault

• Artist: Miriam Schulman