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Ana Mendieta

1948 - 1985

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Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. She is considered one of the most influential Cuban-American artists of the post–World War II era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ana Mendieta has received more than 996,109 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ana Mendieta is the 1,452nd most popular painter (down from 1,403rd in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 93rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Cuban Painter.

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  • 20

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  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ana Mendieta ranks 1,452 out of 2,023Before her are Sascha Schneider, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Antoine Vollon, Constance Mayer, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, and Hiroshi Yoshida. After her are André Gill, Pavel Filonov, Evert van Aelst, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Simon Bening, and Antonin Mercié.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ana Mendieta ranks 339Before her are Nana Jorjadze, Victor Skumin, Philip Jackson, Gregory Itzin, Anatoly Solovyev, and Selda Bağcan. After her are Larry Carlton, Arturo Sosa, Stefania Casini, Margaret Weis, Dušan Kovačević, and Jim Walton. Among people deceased in 1985, Ana Mendieta ranks 133Before her are George Raynor, Harald Cramér, Brian Horrocks, John G. Trump, Benjamin Markarian, and Alexander Mikulin. After her are Bodil Joensen, Ladislav Ženíšek, Clarence Nash, Michel Audiard, Laura Ashley, and Gale Sondergaard.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Ana Mendieta ranks 86 out of 300Before her are José Miguel Gómez (1858), Luis Posada Carriles (1928), Benny Moré (1919), Julio Antonio Mella (1903), Anselmo Alliegro y Milá (1899), and Pío Leyva (1917). After her are Ninón Sevilla (1929), Laurel Aitken (1927), William Levy (1980), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (1936).

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Among PAINTERS In Cuba

Among painters born in Cuba, Ana Mendieta ranks 2Before her are Wifredo Lam (1902). After her are Carmen Herrera (1915).