Existing comment:
Rupert García
born French Camp, California 1941
DDT
1969
screenprint on paper
García turned to bright colors and three simple letters to support César Chávez's call to stop the use of dangerous pesticides in agriculture. He places a running and screaming girl with unnatural purple hair off-center in the composition. Without visible arms, her silhouette suggests the physical injury caused by exposure to the widely used pesticide known as DDT. The letters hover above the figure like airplanes spraying crops with the now banned pesticide. A Vietnam veteran, García may also be equating DDT with the use of chemical weapons in warfare.
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2020.42.2 |