October 2010
|
October 2010 |
|
|
In a country well known for its sculpture and sculptors, Costa Rican Francisco Amighetti is recognized as the first fine artist in the 20th century to use wood engraving, xylography, as a medium of expression. As did Costa Rican sculptor Francisco Zuniga, in the 1930s, Amighetti rejected traditional European styles of art for more revolutionary ideas, like Surrealism infused with primitive elements.
read more...
|
|
Naturaleza Muerta
Naturaleza Muerta painting in Latin America countries thrives throughout the Americas in the 18th and 19th century. The term literally means “dead nature” or “still nature.” The Still Life in conventional imagery has flowers, fruits, or objects of craft, clothing or status. As early as the 1600s, another type of Naturaleza Muerta flourishes… throughout the various cultures in the Americas, portraits of dead or still individuals. Still Life was an important imagery in colonial art; genre and religious paintings in which objects play a significant part. They express national, regional and local identities. The objects are detailed, tactile and preserved for posterity. Their placement is significant of importance. Order and understanding of taxonomy are evident in some of the works that appear like drawers in a museum collection. Postmortem imagery originally developed in Renaissance Europe. It had a particular importance in Latin America. Deceased adults and especially children are captured in paintings, portraits and later, photographs, often enhanced by words detailing the age or character. Objects and representations of station or stature were included. Generally they evoke a sense of peacefulness, yet sometimes the images were politically or socially significant as in the work of Mexican modernists Frida Kahlo, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco. read more... |
Naturaleza Muerta 1938 Frida Kahlo 
Dead Child 1922 Jose Clemente Orozco |
|
|
|
"Entre dos Mundos"
19 drawings by Jose Bedia created with acrylic and oil pastels and framed by an anthropological approach that attempts a journey from the past to the present through nature, technology, and humanity, in order to combine reality with fiction. Through November 21, 2010 Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain http://www.ivam.es “Pearl & Stanley Goodman Latin American Collection” Works from the collection started in 1980s. May 8 through December 5, 2010 Museum of Art, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida http://www.moaflnsu.org "Parallel Currents: Highlights from the Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection of Latin American Art" Approximately 50 paintings and sculptures, collected over a 36-yr period. With full color catalogue. Through Nov. 14, 2010 Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana http://www.pau-llosa.com/news/ “Dreams and Realities: Latin American Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, 1959-1991” 30 works based on the imagination or on observation, or both, the exhibition suggests the nature of and themes found in Latin American art created after 1950. Through February 6, 2011 Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida http://www.fine-arts.org ”Southern Identity: Contemporary Argentine Art” 80 works by 32 living Argentine artists, including León Ferrari, Marta Minujín, Luis Felipe Noé, Nicola Constantino, Marcos López, Pablo Siquier and Marcia Schvartz. Through January 23, 2011 Smithsonian Latino Center, Washington DC http://latino.si.edu/ |
“A Century of Revolution: Mexican Art since 1910”
In conjunction with a city-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. September 1-November 21, 2010 Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR http://www.arkarts.com “Nueva York: 1613-1945” Exhibits tracing New York's deep and extensive historical roots with the Spanish-speaking world. September 17 through early 2011 El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY http://www.elmuseo.org/en/exhibitions “Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter” This exhibition reveals the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a major landscape painter. Through January 30, 2011 Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, CA http://www.molaa.org “Latin American Art: Myth & Reality” Looks at the diverse inspirations and traditions of Latin American art, particularly the pervasive themes of myth, nature, religion, animals and the mysteries of birth and death. Through November 4, 2010 Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY http://www.nassaumuseum.com “Vibracion - Modern Art from Latin America” A selection of more than two hundred works, spanning painting, sculpture, photography and drawing, presents key positions of Latin American geometric abstraction. To January 30, 2011 Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de |
|
•February - 2010 •March - 2010 •April - 2010 •May - 2010 •June - 2010 •July - 2010 •August - 2010 •September - 2010 •October - 2010 |
||||||
|
|
|||||||
