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Mi Amor [My Love]
Primary
Paul Martínez
(Montebello, California, 1966–)
Date1995
MediumScreenprint
DimensionsSheet: 43 15/16 × 30 1/16 in. (111.6 × 76.3 cm)
Image: 38 1/16 × 26 in. (96.6 × 66 cm)
Image: 38 1/16 × 26 in. (96.6 × 66 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Gilberto Cárdenas, 2017.481
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.481
On View
Not on viewA complex religious figure, "la Virgen" is a traditional female role model that embodies both purity and motherhood. She is simultaneously revered and reimagined by artists to fit contemporary notions of gender. In "Mi Amor", Paul Martínez presents a young pregnant woman as Mary. Instead of her cape-like mantle, this Virgin is covered with a Mickey Mouse printed sheet in a scene with vibrant colors and photographic imagery of cherubs and roses.
Exhibitions
![Me adapto a mi enfermedad, de la serie Flores del mal de amor [I Adjust to My Illness, from the series Flowers of Love Sickness]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14999/thumbnail)
![In Memory of César Chávez [En memoria de César Chávez]](/internal/media/dispatcher/12441/thumbnail)
![Caí con mi padre por el espacio, enamorado locamente de la Tierra II [I Fell with My Father Through Space, Madly in Love with the Earth II]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8719/thumbnail)
![Quand maman aime bien petit papa, elle appelle petit papa “ma niniche” [When Mama really loves Papa, she calls Papa “my niniche”], plate 13 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children], in Le Charivari, 15 June 1840](/internal/media/dispatcher/16552/thumbnail)
![El amor y el crimen [Love and Crime], from the portfolio Vida nocturna de la ciudad de México [Mexico City's Nightlife]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18240/thumbnail)
![Un amor casi imposible [An Almost Impossible Love]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14545/thumbnail)
![Don Ferruco y su amor [Don Ferruco and His Love] and Dialogo de calaveras 'Una Pareja Emocionada' [Dialogue of skeletons 'An Excited Couple'], both from 'El gran panteón amoroso [The big cemetery of lovers]](/internal/media/dispatcher/6325/thumbnail)
