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Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa.〔''Eye'', Number 35, Volume 9, Spring 2000.〕 Kent was an American Catholic nun, an artist, and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, or serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Kent designed the 1985 version of the United States Postal Service's special "Love" stamp. ==Biography== Upon entering the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles in 1936, Kent took the name Sister Mary Corita. She took classes at Otis (now Otis College of Art and Design) and Chouinard Art Institute and earned her BA from Immaculate Heart College in 1941. She earned her MA at the University of Southern California in Art History in 1951.〔''Eye'', Number 35, Volume 9, Spring 2000.〕 Between 1938 and 1968 Kent lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart Community.〔''Eye'', Number 35, Volume 9, Spring 2000.〕 She taught in the Immaculate Heart College and was the chair of its art department. She left the order in 1968 and moved to Boston, where she devoted herself to making art. She died of cancer in 1986. Her classes at Immaculate Heart were an avant-garde mecca for prominent, ground-breaking artists and inventors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cage, Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and Charles & Ray Eames.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Tang hosts retrospective of artist, activist, and educator Corita Kent )〕 Kent credited Charles Eames, Buckminster Fuller, and art historian Dr. Alois Schardt for their important roles in her intellectual and artistic growth. Kent created several hundred serigraph designs, for posters, book cover Some of Corita Kent's most recent solo exhibitions include: ''Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent''〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Someday Is Now: The Art of Corita Kent )〕 at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, ''There Will Be New Rules Next Week''〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=There Will Be New Rules Next Week )〕 at Dundee Contemporary Arts, and ''R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita'' at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Corita Kent's estate is represented by the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Corita Kent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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