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https://blantonmuseum.org/exhibition/spirit-splendor/

I went to this exhibition of baroque art from Spain and Latin America on Saturday evening.

Just under sixty works from New York's Hispanic Society Museum & Library are on display at the UT-Austin's Blanton Museum.

The Blanton is open until 8:00 PM on Saturday evenings. I wish more museums were able to open after regular working hours.

I enjoyed and learned from the exhibition. although I was disappointed to see that there was no catalogue published especially for the exhibition.

In the thread, I will pick out three pictures that particularly caught my attention.

#Art #Baroque #HispanicArt #Painting #SpanishArt #LatinAmericanArt #BlantonMuseum #HispanicSocietyMuseumAndLibrary

mary picked up this absolutely amazing #painting at a flea market in #santiago . We can't stop discussing it. We have no idea who the artist is or how old.the work is. Maybe someone who painted one thing one time. Maybe someone whose work graces every motel wall in South America. No idea.

Just look at it. There is just so much going on. Symbolism everywhere. The guy on the bench was going through something heavy.

Maybe somebody named Vargas Jeldes ?

#art #chile #outsiderart #hispanicart #hispanic #WTF #ButInAGoodWay

By Mexican artist Jesús Guerrero Galván (1910-1973), “Niña con perico,” 1938, oil on canvas, 23½ x 19½ in. (60 x 50 cm.), sold at auction, Christie’s New York, in 2007 for $96,000. Alas, I couldn’t find a better resolution jpeg. #Art #hispanicart #mexicanart #MexicoArt

From Wikipedia: “Jesús Guerrero Galván… was a Mexican artist, a member of the Mexican muralism movement of the early 20th century. He began his career in Guadalajara but moved to Mexico City to work on mural projects in the 1930s for the Secretaría de Educación Pública and Comisión Federal de Electricidad In addition, he did easel paintings, with major exhibitions in the United States and Mexico. In 1943, he was an artist-in-residence for the University of New Mexico, painting the mural Union of the Americas Joined in Freedom, considered to be one of his major works. Guerrero Galván was accepted as a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana…

Guerrero Galván was one of the most prolific figurative painters from 20th century Jalisco, part of the Mexican muralism movement… While best known for mural painting, the artist also worked on canvas, lithography and illustration, noted as a draughtsman and colorist… His important works include Fecundidad en el "Olimpo House", La unión de las Américas bajo la égida de la libertad, La niña, Juárez niño, El retrato de la señora de Macotela, El Sueño, La Danza de los venados, La Tierra and El génesis del Popol Vuh…

His style has been characterized as magical realism and poetic, with influences from Italian painting, Jalisco folk art and other aspects of Mexican culture.. Elements in his work include eye expressions indicating placidity in his figures, eyes gazing into infinity and the lack of emotion in the lips. Although he was political in his personal life and part of the muralism movement, his artwork did not have a political or social message. Recurring themes in his easel work is the reality of the Mexican child and a woman on her own with a child, depicting a woman as a mother above all. These are often on sparse settings and the children can seem to be in a kind of limbo…

He was also noted as a portrait painter, with many of his best featuring women and children.”