Corita Kent
Corita Kent was an American artist, printmaker, graphic designer, and former religious sister whose practice placed her within the pop art movement.
Born in Fort Dodge on November 20, 1918, Kent was educated at Immaculate Heart College, the Chouinard Art Institute, the Otis College of Art and Design, and the University of Southern California. She worked as a nun alongside her creative practice, and the facts describe her as both a nun and a former religious sister, reflecting different periods of her life. Her roles across those years encompassed painting, printmaking, graphic design, graphic art, and postage stamp design — a range that made her difficult to place within any single category.
Kent was associated with the pop art movement, and she received the California Hall of Fame in recognition of her work. Her practice as a painter, printmaker, and graphic designer ran through her career as a consistent thread, and postage stamp design was among the specific forms her output took. She died in Boston on September 18, 1986.
Quotes by Corita Kent
Corita Kent's insights on:
If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating – whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.
Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is ‘to fit together’ and we all do this every day.
Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.
Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.
When you are not separate from the creative process, time ceases to exist. You might start to feel tired and suddenly realize that much time has passed. It isn't necessarily a happy time - and may be very difficult to start if it is a job or an obligation. But if' you start with all the concrete needs and proceed in a thorough way - the creative process will take over and you will forget whether it is work or play. Working in the here and now is one of the most uncontaminated ways to work.