Really impressed by the craftsmanship of this piece currently on display at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City.

El Mensajero, by David Armando Martínez Aguilar. Paper cut art.

#art #mexicanart #mexicocity #artexhibition

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.”

La Catrina returns in striking LEGO sculpture, feel the legacy.
An artist reimagined La Catrina with careful brick techniques to capture her graceful silhouette. The design blends traditional Mexican motifs with clever LEGO building to evoke movement and emotion.

Read more in: https://brick.news/blog/lego-ideas-la-catrina-a-celebration-in-bricks-and-spirit

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#LaCatrina
#DiaDeMuertos
#BrickArt
#LEGOArtists
#MexicanArt

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/

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

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

"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!

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