Artwork Details
- Title
- Sun Mad
- Artist
- Date
- 1982
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 20 x 15 in. (50.7 x 38.1 cm) sheet: 22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm)
- Markings
- lower right in pencil: Ester Hernandez '82 lower left in pencil: 45/100 lower center in pencil: "Sun Mad" lower center in plate: SUN MAD/RAISINS/UNNATURALLY GROWN WITH/INSECTICIDES-MITICIDES-HERBICIDES-...
- Copyright
- © 1982, Ester Hernández
- Credit Line
- Gift of Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
- Mediums Description
- screenprint on paper
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Figure
- Landscape — celestial — sun
- History — United States — labor history
- Allegory — civic — injustice
- Figure — fragment — skeleton
- Object — fruit — grape
- Object Number
- 1995.50.32
Artwork Description
In Sun Mad, Hernandez reconfigures the cheerful branding of the Sun-Maid raisin company into a grim warning. In response to her family's exposure to polluted water and pesticides in California's San Joaquin Valley, Hernandez sought to unmask the "wholesome figures of agribusiness," such as the Sun Maid. The skeletal figure draws attention to the dangers and adverse effects of the various chemicals listed in the print's lower register.
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En Sun Mad, Hernandez reconfigura la imagen jovial de la empresa productora de pasas para transformarla en una lúgubre advertencia. En respuesta à la exposición de su familia al agua contaminada y a los plaguicidas en el Valle San Joaquín, en California, Hernandez trató de desenmascarar a “las figuras saludables de las agroempresas”, como la Sun Maid. La figura de un esqueleto dirige la atención hacia los peligros y los efectos adversos de las diversas sustancias químicas mencionadas en el extremo inferior del grabado.
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