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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. Born in Havana, Cuba, Mendieta left for the United States in 1961.Mendieta died on September 8, 1985, in New York City, after falling from her 34th-floor apartment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ana Mendieta has received more than 895,314 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ana Mendieta is the 1,404th most popular painter (down from 1,254th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Cuba (down from 85th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Cuban Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ana Mendieta ranks 1,404 out of 1,421Before her are Vilmos Aba-Novák, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Anna Palm de Rosa, Romanino, Theodor Philipsen, and Toyohara Chikanobu. After her are Aleksandr Gerasimov, Alexey Bogolyubov, Kanō Tan'yū, Lorenz Frølich, Robert Henri, and Heinrich Campendonk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ana Mendieta ranks 338Before her are Meir Shalev, Margaret Weis, Norbert Lammert, Clarence Thomas, Alexander McCall Smith, and Fred Hampton. After her are Jean-Pierre Monseré, Marisol, Robert Holdstock, Donald Fagen, Kate Pierson, and Sinéad Cusack. Among people deceased in 1985, Ana Mendieta ranks 140Before her are Francesca Bertini, Taylor Caldwell, Aksel Airo, Arkady Fiedler, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, and Bruno de Finetti. After her are Dawn Addams, Yrjö Nikkanen, Vladimir Kokkinaki, George London, Carlos Spadaro, and Ladislav Ženíšek.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Ana Mendieta ranks 93 out of 248Before her are Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), Calixto García (1839), Benny Moré (1919), Aleida Guevara (1960), Manuel Díaz (1874), and José María Heredia y Heredia (1803). After her are Salvador Valdés Mesa (1945), Ninón Sevilla (1929), Tony Plana (1952), Michael Aris (1946), Mariela Castro (1962), and Félix Savón (1967).

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Among PAINTERS In Cuba

Among painters born in Cuba, Ana Mendieta ranks 3Before her are Wifredo Lam (1902) and Carmen Herrera (1915).