#mexicanart — Public Fediverse posts
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Talavera Memory
MEXICO-MAYA ARTISTS. “Market Scene,” by Maya artist Gregoria Coche Mendoza from San Pedro de Laguna Maria Lucia Machado was ready for market. Every Friday, the same routine. Pack the vegetables, the fruit, the flowers into baskets, bowls, and boxes and load them into the back of the truck that only still ran because Maria Lucia Machado lit a candle at mass every morning, praying for its continued life. Into the back of the truck, she also loaded the box of used plastic bags for […] -
Mexico Demands a Halt to an Auction of Mexican Artifacts in Colorado.
Under Mexican federal law, artifacts such as the ones on sale today are the property of Mexico, and their export has been prohibited since 1827.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mexico-demands-a-halt-to-colorado-auction-1234788427/ #globalmuseum #Mexicanart -
Weaving Memory: Mexican Textile Art
A powerful exhibition at the Australian Museum exploring Indigenous textile traditions from Mexico through photography, woven works and film.
https://australian.museum/exhibition/weaving-memory/ #globalmuseum #weaving #museums #Mexicanart #textiles #exhibitions -
By Diego Rivera (1886–1957), The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies), 1941, oil on masonite, Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mr. Cary Grant, © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. #arthistory #mexicanart #painting #oilpainting
From the museum: “Rivera was among the leading North American artists of the twentieth century, best remembered for the public murals he painted throughout Mexico and the United States. He arrived at his distinctive brand of stylized naturalism after a decade in Paris (1909–1919), where he had befriended such European artists as Picasso and Duchamp and experimented with various avant-garde approaches. Pre-Columbian art of his native country, however, would present the key source for Rivera’s mature style, characterized by emphatic color, simplified forms, and a dramatic tension between flatness and three-dimensional modeling. The figure of the flower vendor formed a recurring theme in Rivera’s work, appearing both in his murals and in easel paintings like this one. The indigenous girl, kneeling before her pile of calla lilies—a flower associated with funerals and death—constitutes an ode at once to the beauty of Mexico’s native cultures and to the suffering of her native peoples.”
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[Expo] Leonora Carrington - Musée du Luxembourg - Paris
#LeonoraCarrington #ExpoParis #MuséeDuLuxembourg #ExpoCarrington #LeonoraCarrington #Surrealism #Photography #Tarot #Alchimie #surrealism #mexicanart #modernart #mexicansurrealism
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Frida Kahlo's face is everywhere, but her radical truth remains hidden. Beyond the merch: a communist who painted miscarriage, colonial resistance & chronic pain without redemption. Her $54.7M auction record vs. missing Casa Azul works tells everything.
https://theurb.co/frida-kahlo#FridaKahlo #MexicanArt #FineArt #ArtHistory #FemaleArtists #ContemporaryArt #ArtEducation #CasaAzul #DiegoRivera #SelfPortrait #MexicanCulture #CulturalHistory #Fridamania #MexicanRevolution
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Your art history post for today: By Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957), The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies), 1941, oil on masonite, Norton Simon Museum, © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #mexicanart
From the museum: “ Rivera was among the leading North American artists of the twentieth century, best remembered for the public murals he painted throughout Mexico and the United States. He arrived at his distinctive brand of stylized naturalism after a decade in Paris (1909–1919), where he had befriended such European artists as Picasso and Duchamp and experimented with various avant-garde approaches. Pre-Columbian art of his native country, however, would present the key source for Rivera’s mature style, characterized by emphatic color, simplified forms, and a dramatic tension between flatness and three-dimensional modeling. The figure of the flower vendor formed a recurring theme in Rivera’s work, appearing both in his murals and in easel paintings like this one. The indigenous girl, kneeling before her pile of calla lilies—a flower associated with funerals and death—constitutes an ode at once to the beauty of Mexico’s native cultures and to the suffering of her native peoples.”
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Your art history post for today, a work in the collection of the Henry Ransom Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus: by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Untitled [Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird], 1940, oil on canvas mounted to board, © 2020 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. #ArtHistory #mexicoart #womanartist #womenartists #painting #oilpainting #mexicanart #mexicanartist
From Phyllis Tuchman, Smithsonian Magazine, November 2002: ‘Biographies of the artist, which have been translated into many languages, read like the fantastical novels of Gabriel García Márquez as they trace the story of two painters who could not live with or without each other. (Taymor says she views her film version of Kahlo’s life as a “great, great love story.”) Married twice, divorced once and separated countless times, Kahlo and Rivera had numerous affairs, hobnobbed with Communists, capitalists and literati and managed to create some of the most compelling visual images of the 20th century. Filled with such luminaries as writer André Breton, sculptor Isamu Noguchi, playwright Clare Boothe Luce and exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Kahlo’s life played out on a phantasmagorical canvas.’
For more from the article, see: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frida-kahlo-70745811/
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Masks
New York City based photographer Phyllis Galembo spent ten years collecting images of masked celebrants throughout Mexico illustrating the wide cultural influences + diversity of the country. Published in her book Mexico: Masks, Rituals
#mexico #mexicanart #phyllisgalembo #masks #masques #masquerade #cincodemayo #celebrants #photographer #photography #portraitphotography #enmasque #art #artist #mexicomasksrituals #artbook #michaeljacksonmask #colorphotography #colourphotography #halloweenvibes #halloweenseason #halloween
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Masks
New York City based photographer Phyllis Galembo spent ten years collecting images of masked celebrants throughout Mexico illustrating the wide cultural influences + diversity of the country. Published in her book Mexico: Masks, Rituals
#mexico #mexicanart #phyllisgalembo #masks #masques #masquerade #cincodemayo #celebrants #photographer #photography #portraitphotography #enmasque #art #artist #mexicomasksrituals #artbook #michaeljacksonmask #colorphotography #colourphotography #halloweenvibes #halloweenseason #halloween
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"Portrait of Juan Soriano," Maria Izquierdo, 1939.
Izquierdo (1902-55) was a Mexican painter, the first female Mexican painter to exhibit in the United States. Although often referred to as a Surrealist, she identified herself as one of Los Contemporáneos, a Modernist art movement focused on creating a unique Mexican style incorporating traditional folk art with modern perspectives.
She started by doing still lifes and altar scenes but expanded into portraits. She did get some pushback for not being openly political in her work, but she persisted in focusing on people's inner lives. She was critical of feminism at the time, but was also a vocal supporter of women in the arts and having equal rights in the workplace.
Soriano (1920-2006) was a painter and sculptor, recognized as a major talent since his teens (he was only 18/19 when this was painted). He's best known now for his many monumental sculptures that can be found in Mexico.
Happy Portrait Monday!
#Art #WomenArtists #MexicanArt #MariaIzquierdo #JuanSoriano #PortraitMonday
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G and I spent the morning at the Gabriel Orozco exhibit. 😁
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"The Fire," David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1939.
Siqueiros (1896-1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, known mostly for his murals.
However, what we have here isn't Social Realism, but an experimental Abstract painting. He was known before then mostly for representational landscapes and portraits, or symbolic-yet-still-realistic political scenes. In his 1939 exhibition at the Matisse Gallery in NYC, he presented art done with new equipment and techniques. This was done with an airbrush, with stencils, in a pyroxylin lacquer now used in such things as nail polish, photography, and magicians' flash paper. He specifically used Duco, an automotive lacquer, for his Matisse show.
As it became shiny and inflexible, it looked cool, but as this was done on paper, it was quite fragile, and now is mounted on a rubber backing.
Siqueiros had an eventful life; an avowed Communist, he fought in the Spanish Civil War, was a muralist for the Obregon government in Mexico, was involved in an attempted assassination of Leon Trotsky, worked in the US and Cuba.....while some say his artistic work was interrupted by his political activity, he viewed them as one and the same.
From the Museo Blaisten, Ciudad de Mexico.
#Art #MexicanArt #DavidAlfaroSiqueiros #AbstractArt #SocialRealism
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Yesterday we had a very promising first meeting with a new museum/cultural center, to explore a possible exhibit on the history of Mexican comics. The place itself is awesome, it showcases the work of various art collectives from the neighborhood. These particular pieces are affectionately called “the museum’s guardians” by the staff. Check the details, they’re made out of cardboard and reclaimed trash.
😱🤩
#Comics #MexicanComics #Art #UrbanArt #ArtCollectives #MexicanArt
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Diego Rivera's "The Flower Carrier" is one of the first paintings to enter @SFMOMA 's collection. The artist returned to the subject of Mexico’s many flower markets again and again, creating more than 24 pictures of flower vendors during his lifetime
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"Portrait of Dolores Hoyos," Hermenegildo Bustos, 1884.
Mexican artist José Hermenegildo de la Luz Bustos Hernández (1832-1907) was known mostly for his portraits, but also did a number of religious paintings and still lifes.
He saw a lot of turbulence in his early life, including a cholera epidemic and the founding of the Mexican nation. At various times he worked as a tinsmith, tailor, carpenter, and mason, and kept an orchard. He had many interests in thing like history and astronomy, and art. He had a little formal art training but seems to have been largely self-educated, painting portraits of the members of prominent families in his area. He even did a portrait of Benito Juarez, now lost. (Check your attic!) And he always modestly indicated himself as "amateur painter" when signing his work.
After his death and the Mexican Revolution, his work was reassessed as a native son of Mexico, and received greater notice and acclaim. This portrait of a well-to-do young lady is probably his most popular work.
From the Museo Blaisten, Ciudad de Mexico.
#Art #MexicanArt #HermenegildoBustos #Realism #WomenInArt #PortraitMonday.
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Self Portraits by Mexican Artist Jose Parra
1) La Noche del Juicio (The Night of the Judgement)
2) Autorrerato Cosiendo Sombrero de Arleguin (Self Portrait Sewing Harlequin Hat)
#joseparra #art #artist #selfportrait #selfportraits #autorretrato #mexicanartist #huile #oleo #oilpainting #autorretratos #autoretrato #artworld #juicio #mexicanart
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"Self-Portrait," Abraham Ángel, 1923.
Ángel (1905-24) had a tragically short life and a brief career, but he shone brightly. Born Abraham Ángel Card Valdés, he dropped his surnames when his older brother kicked him out of the family for defying his wishes and studying art.
Ángel was mentored by the great Mexican muralist Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, and the two became lovers. Ángel had an intense three-year painting career, producing fewer than 30 works...but they are much in demand today. Not long after this was completed, Ángel and Lozano broke up, and Ángel was found dead shortly thereafter from an overdose of cocaine. Whether it was suicide or accidental is unknown. He was only 19.
The ferocity of the colors, and his expression, are arresting.
From the Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City.
#Art #MexicanArt #AbrahamAngel #QueerArtists #SelfPortrait #Modernism
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Celebrating the vibrant colors and unique artistry of Día de los Muertos! These handcrafted skulls embody the spirit of remembrance and tradition. íaDeLosMuertos #D #MexicanArt #CulturalHeritage
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When she opens her thighs for you but you gotta give a belly rub too.
Female ceramic statuette from Nayarit, #Mexico, 300 BC - 500 CE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
