Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Takes on Pop Art

Watch as New York Times art critic Aruna D’Souza examines works in our collection that hold the promise of a better future in her series 5 Pictures for a New World. Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith reclaimed the Pop Art techniques of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol in her 1992 artwork Target. These artists insisted on the lack of meaning in everyday objects, like flags and targets, in their artworks. But that wasn’t true for Native Americans, so Quick-to-See Smith made a huge mixed-media work using these symbols in her own way. Learn more about the exhibition Jaune Quick-to-See Smith curated at the National Gallery of Art here. Aruna D’Souza was the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in 2022.
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