What was Tina Modotti’s orginal name and where was she born?
Tina Modotti was born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti in the northern Italian city of Udine in 1896.
Where did Tina work between 1909 and 1912?
Tina worked in a textile factory, which some biographers consider an important foundation for her later dedication to workers’ causes.
When did Tina join her family in the United States?
In 1913, she took a ship to New York and crossed the country by train, joining her father and sister in San Francisco.
Who did Tina marry and what did it cause?
Tina married a poet named Roubaix “Robo” de l’Abrie Richey who introduced her to members of the Southern California literary and artistic community, including the photographer Edward Wetson.
When did Tina become a model?
She began working at the Magnin department store, eventually beginning a career as a model.
What films did Tina have roles in, following her career as a fashion model?
Tina had roles in three silent films, The Tiger’s Coat (1920), Riding with Death (1921), and I Can Explain (1922).
How did Tina’s husband die?
In 1922, Robo died of smallpox in Mexico City while Tina was on the way there to join him.
What did Tina do after her husbands funeral?
She stayed on to complete his work on an exhibition at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (National School of the Fine Arts).
Who did Tina meet through her husband’s connections?
She met members of the Mexican muralist group, including Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueros along with other important members of the Mexican artistic and literary avant-garde.
What did Tina do after Edward Weston returned to California?
Her politics became more radical and she joined the Partido Communista Mexicano (Communist Party of Mexico) and worked as a propgandist for the Soviet embassy.
What aspects of Tina’s photography were derived from the lessons she learned from Weston?
Her close cropping, dramatic lighting, and sharp focus were learned from Weston who applied these same strategies to make familiar objects seem unfamliliar.
What does Hands Resting on a Tool look like?
Tightly framed image showing a pair of brown-skinned hands folded on the metal handle of an unidentified tool.
What did machine age idealists believe would occur due to technological advances?
They believed that efficency and democracy would be reached from the advances.
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, a photograph of the Ford River Rogue’s inner workings, was photographed by which ex-unnofical member of the Stieglitz circle?
Charles Sheeler, who was kicked from the stieglitz circle due to his embracement of commercial photography, despite never being officially sworn into it.
What style of photography and painting did Charles Sheeler take on?
He often painted abstract paintings based off of his sharp photographs. This is known as Precisionism.
Why did workers employed at Ford facilites and other similar complexes feel estranged?
Because after Taylorism took a storm, many places began to value machines over people, and human energy was a resource taken into consideration now, good or bad. This can be seen with how none of Charles Sheen’s works include any workees at the Ford River Rouge facility, putting the emphasis on the machine.
What is displayed in Tina Modotti’s “Hands Resting on a Tool”?
Brown-skinned hands resting on the handle of an unknown tool, with dirt and mud in the crevices of their beaten hand.
What did many of the pieces that Tina Moddoti produced feature as the focal point?
Hands, as they began to become more popular and represented the hard work of labor, and alligned with her political beliefs.
in 1927 after Edward Weston left Modotti to go back to California, what politcal party group did Modotti join in Mexico city?
The Mexican Communist Party, which ended up with her getting deported to Europe, where she resided until Facism began to take over, in which she was allowed to return to Mexico.
Art-deco motifs, Pan-african symbolism, and geometric styles are incorporated in which 1920s artist’s style?
Aaron Douglas, who drew illustrations for many magazines and books.
Aaron Douglas’s “Let My People Go” resembles which scene from the Bible, which is famous among Black religious narratives?
The story of when Moses parted the Red sea, which washed away the attacking egyptians and protecting the enslaved israelites on their journey to the Promised Land.
What was lynching and what was the NAACP’s view on it?
Lynching was an unlawful mob-killing of someone (typically on a racial basis), and the NAACP had a rightful negative view on it and attempted to push a bill to prevent lynching.
What did the 1913 Armory show do for art, and how was the art of the time after it start to change?
The 1913 armory show helped modernist art forms flourish, and from that point on Avant-Garde artists became much more prevalent, alongside the explosion of abstract art forms.
Removal of manipulation in photography was one push that many progressive photographers took. What were other pushes they also made?
They also pushed to remove narrative from their work, and transform their work into more innovative ways with the use of new light techniques.
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