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:''Not to be confused with Miriam Shapira-Luria, a Talmud scholar in the Late Middle Ages'' Miriam Schapiro (or Shapiro) (November 15, 1923 – June 20, 2015) was a Canadian-born artist based in America. She was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. She was a pioneer of feminist art. She was also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement.〔 〕 Schapiro's artwork blurs the line between fine art and craft. Her paintings contain craft elements because crafts and decoration is associated with women and femininity. She used icons that are associated with women such as hearts, floral decorations, geometric patterns and the color pink. In the 1970s she made a small woman's object, the fan, heroic by painting it six feet by twelve feet. ==Personal life and education== Schapiro was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.〔 Her father was an industrial design artist who fostered her desire to be an artist and served as her role model and mentor. Her mother was a stay at home mother who worked part-time during the depression.〔Gouma-Peterson, Thalia. Miriam Schapiro: An Art of Becoming. American Art 11.1 (1997) : 10-45.〕 Schapiro studied at the State University of Iowa, where she met the artist Paul Brach, whom she married in 1946.〔Avital H. Bloch, Lauri Umansky, ''Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s'', NYU Press, 2005, p319. ISBN 0-8147-9910-8〕 By 1951 they moved to New York City and befriended many of the Abstract expressionist artists of the New York School, including Joan Mitchell, Larry Rivers, Knox Martin and Michael Goldberg. Shapiro and Brach lived in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. During this period Shapiro had a successful career as an abstract expressionist painter in the hard-edge style.〔Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, Helen Gardner, ''Gardner's Art Through the Ages'', Thomson Wadsworth, 2005, p1073. ISBN 0-15-505090-7〕 She died on June 20, 2015 in Hampton Bays, New York, aged 91.〔http://hyperallergic.com/216461/remembering-miriam-schapiro-1923-2015/〕〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/arts/design/miriam-schapiro-91-a-feminist-artist-who-harnessed-craft-and-pattern-dies.html?_r=0〕 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「Miriam Schapiro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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