Joan of Arc

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Artist: Shin-hee Chin

Title: Joan of Arc

Attribution: Joan of Arc, 2012

Year: 2012

Materials: recycled fabric, mixed yarn and thread

Dimensions: 40" x 40"

Image Statement: Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, also Jeanne d\\\'Arc (1412 – May 30, 1431), is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. She was a peasant girl who received visions from God and whose efforts led to the liberation of French army from English during Hundred Years\\\' War. She was captured, put on trial, and burned at the stake by the English when she was 19 years old. Even today, she is held as a paragon of female courage and leadership, piety and devotion, as well as a French patriot. I appropriated two artworks of Joan of Arc: one monochromatic painting by P. Dubois(1873) and multicolored paintings by French symbolism painter Odilon Redon. The styles of paintings are different, yet both of the paintings choose to depict the profile view of Joan of Arc. War, ideology, and patriotism often skew perceptions of a nation, painting one nation’s hero/heroine to be another’s enemy. Thus we see only one facet of that person – a profile view.