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  The Famous Rainbow Swash, a work by Corita Kent in Boston.
In 1971, artist Corita Kent (1918-1986) designed the rainbow swash which was painted on one of the storage tanks in Dorchester.
Corita Kent was a promoter of peace in the world, but denied that a profile was embedded in the rainbow.
Corita Kent is also famous for the 1985 United States postage stamp "Love," which sold hundreds of millions of copies.
www.celebrateboston.com /strange/coritakent.htm   (262 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com | Famous Iowans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mary Corita Kent was born in Fort Dodge, then moved with her family to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1920.
Corita Kent, shown in 1985, moved to Boston and opened an art gallery in 1968 after 30 years as a nun.
Sister Corita became a symbol of the modern nun and was often the target of conservative Catholics, particularly when she turned to regular street dress in 1967.
desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/kent.html   (361 words)

  
 What is Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kent is a county in England, south-east of London.
East Kent became one of the kingdoms of the Jutes during the fifth century AD (see Kingdom of Kent) and the area was later known as Cantia in around AD 730 and Cent in AD 835.
Kent is sometimes known as the 'Garden of England' because of its agricultural influence, extensive orchards and hop-gardens.
www.whatis.tv /Kent.html   (2202 words)

  
 Arcadia University Art Gallery: Corita Kent
Since Corita was involved full-time teaching in the art departmentat Immaculate Heart College, her yearly output of prints was made in a frenzied two-week stint between semesters.
Corita’s inventive use of text reflects and extends the ideas of her 1960s artistic counterparts in Southern California.
Corita’s handwritten literary appropriations seem related as well to both the poetic writings of Raymond Pettibon’s drawings and the quirky texts that animate the collages of Joyce Lightbody.
gargoyle.arcadia.edu /gallery/archives/corita.htm   (686 words)

  
 Corita's Biography
Corita was born Frances Kent in 1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Corita’s chronic insomnia no doubt made some of this possible, but it was often accompanied by a bleak depression.
Corita remained active in social causes and designed posters and billboards for Share, the International Walk for Hunger, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Amnesty International.
www.corita.org /coritabiography.html   (533 words)

  
 'The Power of Corita' at Claremont | The-Tidings.com
The work of celebrated artist Corita Kent will be on display at the Claremont School of Theology including pieces from her Circus and International Signal Code themes, and pop art using brand name labels, political motifs and quotes from literary and religious sources.
Kent's entire "Moments" series will be presented as well as her Beatitudes banner that was displayed at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.
Kent, also known as Sister Corita, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s.
www.the-tidings.com /2004/0319/sgcorita.htm   (175 words)

  
 Creighton University Department of Fine & Performing Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Corita Kent became one of our country's most celebrated artists and gained international fame through her creative, magical use of color and words.
Sister Corita's classes at Immaculate Heart College, where she'd been assigned to the faculty in the 1940s, were "events, happenings." Her leadership of the art department brought fame and crowds of visitors.
After thirty years as a nun, Corita Kent left her order and returned to private life to have more time for reflection and observation.
finearts.creighton.edu /highlights/kent.html   (348 words)

  
 SISTER CORITA KENT, I.H.M.
Corita's protests are still being enunciated each time someone observes her artwork.
All of this took a toll on Corita and the entire community, who had chosen to experiment and make what was considered "drastic" changes in those days gone by.
Corita was living in Boston, and when she picked-up the phone she was very warm and charming.
www.nmia.com /~paulos/corita.html   (989 words)

  
 Mary Kent - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
Mary Corita Kent was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1918, then moved with her family to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1920.
She never was arrogant, and accepted the status because she believed it would help the College of the Immaculate Heart where she was teaching, and she thought it would be good for her community of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Corita passed away in 1986, bequeathing her remaining prints, as well as the copyrights to all her works, to support the good works of the Immaculate Heart Community.
www.askart.com /artist/K/mary_corita_kent.asp?ID=85517   (1716 words)

  
 Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA USA
Jutting near the Expressway in Dorchester, one of a pair of Boston Gas Tanks was adorned with the myriad-hued stripes of artist Corita Kent from the early 1970s to 1992.
According to the Corita Art Center, her "earliest works were largely iconographic &emdash; neo-gothic,' borrowing phrases and depicting images from the Bible.
Corita Kent's 150-foot-high painting, however, was copied on the remaining tank - except, some say, for the so-called profile of Ho Chi Minh.
www.dotnews.com /didsheordidntshe.html   (867 words)

  
 Spirituality & Health: Learning by Heart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Corita Kent taught in the art department of Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles.
Her lively and original silk screen prints reflect her belief that "one purpose of art is to alert people to things they may have missed." Her students, including Jan Steward, were activated by this challenge.
One of Corita Kent's designs was a composition based on the titles of three magazines — "LOOK at LIFE all the TIME." Once you have savored Learning by Heart, you'll agree that LOOKNG at LIFE all the TIME is the best way to cultivate the spiritual vitality of creativity.
www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/bookreview/item_7125.html   (248 words)

  
 ChuckIII's College Resources - Miscellaneous - Sister Corita Kent - Free Term Papers, Book Reports, Essays, and ...
CORITA KENT By John Keleher 12/14/00 American Pop Art was born of the newly found self-confidence with which American art had asserted itself.
And this seems to be exactly what Sister Corita intended when she began chopping up slogans, reversing well-known logos, stacking phrases, changing mottos, and constantly contrasting crisp-edged fonts with sloppy handwriting.
“What’s remarkable about Corita,” Michael Duncan exclaims, “is that she took the signage of everyday life and used it to express her own form of liberal spirituality.” It was this sense of "liberal spirituality" with an interesting sense of humor incorporated that propelled Sister Corita into prominence as a Pop Art icon.
www.chuckiii.com /Reports/Miscellaneous/Sister_Corita_Kent.shtml   (1474 words)

  
 vol2_45.htm
Corita Kent was an extraordinary example of an artist who used art both to celebrate everyday life and as a form of social activism.
Corita died in 1986, but her work continues to inspire and influence many.
Corita (she was known by her first name) was an art teacher at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles for a number of years.
www.uiowa.edu /~socialwk/bills/newsletters/vol2_45.htm   (996 words)

  
 "Corita Kent" from the sassy lawyer's journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Corita Kent, also known as Sister Corita, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s.
Corita’s art reflects her spirituality, her commitment to social justice, her love of peace and her delight in “the world that takes place all around us.”
...Corita’s works appear in the permanent collections of over 40 major museums including the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
journal.houseonahill.net /index.php/journal/entry/corita-kent   (531 words)

  
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Soon after, an exhausted Sister Corita parted ways with the convent, the Catholic Church and Los Angeles, settling in Boston and on a less confrontational mode of artmaking until her death from cancer in 1986.
Duncan's version of Sister Corita's oeuvre is presented in a chronological line, with the bulk of the prints hung one after another as distinct entities, at eye level, with occasional clusters of Corita's source photographs and curatorial text panels to break the rhythm.
Sister Corita's work is splendid, and suffused with a sense of integration, of a competent graphic artist pushed to unlikely heights by the tides of history and finding unsuspected reserves of genius and compassion with which to respond.
www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=12644   (1107 words)

  
 Contribute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Corita Kent took that flicker and caused it to bloom in a splash of purple and white, a radiant burst of hope.
Corita Kent, who died in 1986, added her voice to ours during the trial in the early 1980s, when she produced the first "Plowshares" edition of We are filled with hope.
Corita was an internationally known artist who taught at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles.
www.thomasmertoncenter.org /contribute_to_the_tmc.htm   (900 words)

  
 UNL Video Services
Corita Kent displayed a broad spectrum of gifts, particularly to the millions who appreciated and collected her art.
Creator of the top-selling "Love" postage stamp, she used color, words and consumer culture to create a vibrant, revolutionary art that spoke with the voice of a generation.
Through a fast-paced montage of Kent's artwork, interviews and rare footage, this program chronicles the inspiring life of a joyous young woman who put her convictions into practice.
videoservices.unl.edu /catalog/search2.cfm?ID=780   (82 words)

  
 Corita Art Center plans Family Fun Fest in August | The-Tidings.com
A family event that involves an art tour and the chance to create art in the vision of legendary artist Corita Kent is scheduled Aug. 8 at the Corita Art Center in Hollywood.
The Corita Art Center is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Corita Kent's art and dedication to social justice.
Her serigraphs have received international acclaim for their use of color and text, and are found in more than 30 museums.
www.the-tidings.com /2004/0702/olacorita.htm   (282 words)

  
 Nun of a Kind
This exhibition features the work of Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986), an unlikely but influential pop artist who made big-hearted prints from advertising slogans – all in service to her faith in God and her social conscience.
Although Kent left her order in 1968, the flamboyant style of her prints spread rapidly through liberal Catholic churches and its effects can still be seen today.
Like other pop artists, Kent found ambiguity lurking in the language of advertising but she sifted out a completely different message.
www.citypaper.net /articles/121400/ae.art.kent.shtml   (432 words)

  
 Claremont Courier Online: Corita Kent exhibit leaving school soon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Approximately 70 original serigraphs and archival pieces spanning the life of Corita Kent—also known as Sister Corita—fill the library’s 3 floors at the Claremont School of Theology.
Sister Corita is one of America’s most celebrated serigraph artists and her original artworks can be found in more than 37 major museums.
She was a pioneer of political, social and religious consciousness in the 60s and 70s, using letters and words to create art pieces.
www.claremont-courier.com /mt/archives/000914.html   (202 words)

  
 Corita Kent ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
One historian notes that In the mid-1700's, between 65 and 68 per cent of inventories list chairs in Delaware's Kent and New Castle Counties, as wcl1 as in neighbou...
His engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Samuel Palmer...
Tacita Dean trained as a painter and now works in a variety of media, including drawing, photography and sound, but is best known for her 16mm films, of which she has made seventeen to date.
www.wwar.com /masters/k/kent-corita.html   (912 words)

  
 carita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Look closely at the left side of the blue stripe, and you'll see a man's profile.
Kent has since died, so she's not talking.
But Boston Gas ardently denies any political tinge, saying the profile is a coincidence.
www.wellesley.edu /Polisci/wj/Vietimages/corita.htm   (187 words)

  
 Sister Mary Corita Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sister Mary Corita Kent was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
At her death, the major portion of her estate was bequeathed to Immaculate Heart College.
Corita Kent's work is included in numerous private and public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
www.otis.edu /alumni/da/kent.htm   (362 words)

  
 The Big G Stands for Goodness
A teacher at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, and a civil rights, feminist and anti-war activist, Corita (she resigned from her religious order in 1968) was one of the most popular American graphic artists of the 1960s and 1970s, making hundreds of prints espousing her humanist causes.
Corita mixed swatches of bright, saturated color with fragments of graphics appropriated from commercial supermarket items.
With a deadpan literalism and an ear for language rivaling that of her contemporary Angelino, Ed Ruscha, Corita confirms her upbeat theology in well-known advertising phraseology of her time in prints which include passage such as The big G stands for goodness ~General Mills) and Put a tiger in your tank (Esso gasoline).
www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa546.htm   (678 words)

  
 Corita Kent Online
Corita Kent art links/last verified May 9/10, 2005
Corita Kent at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Benedictio, screenprint
All images and text on this Corita Kent page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/kent_corita.html   (102 words)

  
 Dorchester Atheneum: Artists
The biggest copyrighted piece of work in the country is the giant rainbow design by artist Corita Kent on the Gas Tank in Dorchester.
Corita Kent who lived from 1918 to 1986 was a muralist and printmaker.
Although she is not a Dorchester artist, the very size of the painting on the Gas Tank makes it a landmark, identifying Dorchester to the traveler on the Southeast Expressway.
www.dorchesteratheneum.org /page.php?id=11&expand=1   (247 words)

  
 Corita Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Corita Kent was an internationally known artist who taught at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles.
In her work, she brought a dramatic fusion of social, political, religious, and aesthetic concerns.
Corita won international acclaim for her colorful silkscreen prints (serigraphs).
www.urly.com /Awakened_Eye/corita.html   (172 words)

  
 artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Philadelphia Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kent, an activist and teacher, made hot, earnest works.
Appropriating Madison Avenue slogans ("put a tiger in your tank"), she made humanistic, Christian word art that exposed the promises of the advertisers for what they were -- airy as white bread.
And, as the companion show of 17 West coast artists who also make text-based art points up, Kent's work is kin to the word art of Ed Ruscha and Robert Heinecken, and may well be an influence on a few West coast artists working today, notably Raymond Pettibon.
deathstar.artnet.com /Magazine/reviews/fallon/fallon1-8-01.asp   (1507 words)

  
 The Ho Chi Minh Memorial Gas Tank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The tank is covered in a giant rainbow design (the largest copyrighted piece of work in the country) by artist Corita Kent.
Keyspan has always claimed it's a coincidence; some suspect Kent, an anti-war activist, included Ho in her 1971 opus as a subtle protest (Kent herself isn't talking; she's dead).
In 1992, Keyspan tore down the Kent tank and hired painters (including at least one Vietnamese refugee) to repaint the mural on the other one.
www.boston-online.com /bizarro/the_ho_chi_minh_memorial_gas_tank.html   (160 words)

  
 Corita Kent ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Corita, Be a day spring to the dimness of us, 20th century
The exhibition takes its title from Takashi Murakami’s tour de force painting Super Nova, 1999, which depicts “the destruction of an earthly terrain by atomic weapons whose mushroom clouds are rendered in ravishingly colorful detail,” according to...
SISTER CORITA KENT, I.H.M. Welcome to the Corita Art Center
wwar.com /masters/k/kent-corita.html   (912 words)

  
 Sister Corita by Kent, Sister Mary Corita & Cox, Harvey & Eisenstein, Samuel A.
Sister Corita by Kent, Sister Mary Corita & Cox, Harvey & Eisenstein, Samuel A. Featured
Kent, Sister Mary Corita & Cox, Harvey & Eisenstein, Samuel A. Title:
Notes: 80 pgs., with 33 of the 34 prints encased in clamshell, fl boards with white lettering, B/W photographs, boards and prints in very nice condition, white, yellow and fl clamshell is soiled, taped, open and closed tears.
www.michaelsbooks.com /q_book_10915_Sister-Corita.html   (304 words)

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