Artist Birthday: Santiago Cárdenas
The countries of Central and South America experienced a Renaissance of modernism in art, due in part to influences these artists derived from Europe and the United States, and more importantly, becau ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Óscar Muñoz
Hispanic Heritage Month celebration was initially celebrated for a week starting in 1968, and was expanded to a month in 1988. The great artistic heritage of Mexico, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and So ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Mayapán and Yaxchilán
Hispanic Heritage Month celebration was initially celebrated for a week starting in 1968, and was expanded to a month in 1988. The great ancient civilizations of Mexico, Mesoamerica and South America ...
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Artist Birthday: Marisol
Marisol Escobar was one of the few women artists’ names associated with Pop Art. While she was renowned for her sculptures of celebrities and politicians, her anonymous figure sculptures contain ...
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Artist Birthday: Antonio Frasconi
Antonio Frasconi is an internationally known woodcut artist. He has published hundreds of prints and illustrated many books. Although much of his work has registered political protest, his subjects ra ...
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Artist Birthday: Eduardo MacEntyre
The complex linear patterns in MacEntyre's Generative Paintings were reminiscent of the nautilus designs of Leonardo Fibonacci (1175–1250), an Italian mathematician, whose designs were based on ...
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Artist Birthday: Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar is an installation artist whose work is conceptual and documents injustice, genocide, ongoing famine, and other major afflictions to humanity in many parts of the world. ...
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Artist Birthday: José Campeche y Jordán
As with portraiture in mainland Spanish colonial cultures, wealthy Puerto Ricans emulated their European counterparts in the never-ending obsession of Spanish colonials that they were “pure Span ...
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Artist Birthday: Carlos Mérida
In 1941 Mérida was invited to teach frescoes at the University of Austin in Texas. He remained there two years. Tempo in Red Major dates from that visit. It certainly reflects, in its title the ...
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Giving Thanks: M. Tony Peralta
Thanksgiving in the United States is meant to be a day when we express gratitude for our blessings. I am still grateful for the doctors and nurses who valiantly served our communities during the pande ...
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