Faith Ringgold

The painting God Bless America was created by the artist Faith Ringgold. She grew up in Harlem during the Great Depression. She didn't feel as if her and her family was affected by it because of her loving family. Ringgold's art work was effected by the people, poetry, and music that she experienced while she was younger, also the racism, sexism, and segregation that she dealt with in her everyday life. This painting was created during the civil rights movement in 1964.It is a descriptive painting about the US government at those times. The symbols that she uses in this painting is a person that is stuck in a prison by living in America, the stripes symbolise the bars which they live behind. 
            
                                                                 God Bless America