Sonya Rapoport

Sonya Rapoport is a digital artist who creates images that show both a feminist voice and an intelligent view throughout her works. She was born on October 6, 1923 in Brookline Massachusetts and took classes at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, spending her summers in an art colony in Maine. She then went to the Massachusetts College of Art. She switched away from art and majored in biology at Boston University in 1943 and then went back to attending many different art schools, such as Art Students League of New York and University of California, Berkeley.

My favorite piece of Rapoport's was her 1994 project entitled, "Fish or Foul". In this project she included snapshots of the World Cup and then matched a moving fish with a comment to the World Cup picture. I think that these fish are hilarious and definitely add humor to the event. I think that Rapoport is making fun of the World Cup a little because she is comparing the players to fish.

I really like the concept behind these images because it is funny and interesting. I do not understand how she pick the different types of fish to be matched up with each athlete though. I really like how the scientific name is at the bottom of the picture, and then a funny caption. The movement of the fish picture is really cool too. Finally, I like how the fish picture is black and white because it adds to the contrast of the soccer picture and the scientific picture. I noticed a parallel because at one point Sonya Rapoport was majoring in biology so it was cool to see these interests come into her work.