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Manuel Felguerez Mexican, born 1928 Entre dos almas (Between Two Souls), 1992 Oil on canvas Purchased with funds provided by the Ewing Halsell Foundation Photo Credit: Alice Lowe for the Texas Art Crawl. “Every plane contains potentially infinite volumes. Opt for one, and create a relief; color will also assume dimension. Then take the volume and develop it in space, demonstrate that the concept painting-relief-sculpture is obsolete, exhausted,that form-color is one within relative spaces”…….Manuel Felguerez Manuel Felguerez was born in 1928 in Zacatecas, Mexico. He moved to Mexico City to study sculpture at the Academia de San Carlos and La Esmeralda School of Art. He began exhibiting in the early 1950’s in Paris and Mexico City and continues to exhibit worldwide today. Felguerez has taught for many years at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was also a visiting professor at Cornell University. In 1976, he was Visiting Researcher at Harvard University, where he collaborated with other scholars on the use of computers in design. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim grant. Entre dos almas is typical of many of Felguerez’s paintings from the early 1990’s in which he explores composition in two dimensions. His paintings include lyrical explorations of curved organic forms juxtaposed with geometric elements. The cool metallic gray background of this work is reminiscent of the high technology and computer elements which influenced Felguerez’s work in the late 1970’s. Felguerez’s paintings are closely related to many of his sculptural reliefs. Reference: San AntonioMuseum of Art #SanAntonioMuseumOfArt #admTexasArtCrawl #admMuseumSupport #admSupportsTheArts #ArtHistory #ArtHistorian #ArtCurator #MuseumCurator #LetsGoToTheMuseum #CultureTrip #CultureTravel #CultureTraveler #Art #ArtCollector #OilOnCanvas #VisitSanAntonio#VisitTexas #ArtMuseum #OrganicForms #artist #instaart #instagood #LearnAboutArt #AtTheMuseum #Texas #SanAntonio (at San Antonio Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/BkqxeF-H-2V/?igshid=1a0hupnrreq3r

Julio Alpuy Uruguayan, 1919-2009 Constructivist View of Montevideo, 1957 Oil on burlap Purchased with funds from the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Fund for the Acquisition of Modern Latin American Art   Julio Alpuy was born in Tacuarembo, Uruguay. He studied at the Taller Torres-Garcia in Montevideo under its founder Joaquin Torres-Garcia, one of Latin America’s most important artists of the 20th century and the founder of Constructivism in Latin America. He became teacher-in-charge of the Taller from 1946-1951. Alpuy’s first one-man show was held in Buenos Aires in 1948. His work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and many other important museums in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Alpuy died in New York in 2009.   The painting is characteristic of the School of Constructivism—well-defined grids filled with symbolic shapes that serve as metaphors of greater truths, geometric blocks of color, and emphasis of essence over representation. Here, Montevideo, Uruguay is shown vertically by using colorful rectangular blocks containing symbolic details. REF: on site signage at San Antonio Museum of Art   Photo Credit: Alice Lowe for the @ArtandDesignMatters Texas Art Crawl   #ArtandDesignMatters #admTexasArtCrawl #admMuseumSupport #admSupportsTheArts #LetsGoToTheMuseum #art #artists #JulioAlpuy #SanAntonioMuseumOfArt #Museum #museumcurator #VisitSanAntonio #VisitTexas #SanAntonio #Texas #SanAntonioTexas #arthistory #artcollector #arthistorian #historyofart #CultureTrip #CultureTravel #CultureTraveler #constructivist #constructivistpainting #schoolofconstructivism #artmusueums #museumvisit #museumexhibit (at San Antonio Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CReqR4KLr3I/?utm_medium=tumblr

Richard Anuszkiewicz (born 1930 in Erie, Pennsylvania) Tribal, 1970 Liquitex on canvas; Gift of Mr. David Teiger A leading exponent of Op Art (short for Optical Art), Anuszkiewicz is known for non-objective paintings that vibrate and glow with complimentary colors. He experiments with effects of such colors and the optical changes that occur as a result of painting them in radiating expanses in a square format. Photo Credit: Alice Lowe for the @artanddesignmatters Florida Art Crawl aka #admFloridaArtCrawl #ArtandDesignMatters #admSupportsTheArts #admMuseumSupport #LetsGoToTheMuseum #VisitFlorida #VisitBocaRaton #BocaRaton #Florida #BocaRatonFlorida #CultureTrip #CultureTraveler #CultureTravel #art #artanddesign #design #ArtHistory #ArtHistorian #artcurator #museum #museumcurator #bocaratonmuseumofart #opart #nonobjectiveart (at Boca Raton Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRVN1wsLOM1/?utm_medium=tumblr

Check out the traveler's museum guide at our website. The list is growing. Feel free to make a suggestion to include your favorite museum. www.ArtandDesignMatters.com #LetsGoToTheMuseum #ArtandDesignMatters #admMuseumSupport #admSupportsTheArts #artmuseums #museums #museumweek #art #artists #sculpture #antiques #antiquities #museumwalk #museum #museumcurator #directoryofmuseums #museumdirectory #antique #artcollection #artcollector #museumcollection #artcrawls #culturetrip #culturetravel #culture #culturetraveler #adventuretravel #artmuseums #arthistory #historymuseums https://www.instagram.com/p/B9h9H9Dgvkp/?igshid=7p23zu4szkgj

Dan Namingha American, Tewa-Hope, born 1950 Detail shot of Montage Series 3. 2004 Acrylic on Canvas Photo Credit: Alice Lowe for the Art and Design Matters California Art Crawl. Integral to an understanding of Dan Namingha’s art and its spiritual quality is the knowledge of his ancestry. His work is the product of an artistic Native American heritage in which the creation of art is a high ideal in the centuries-old Hopi-Tewa tradition. Namingha belongs to the fifth generation of a talented family of artists and potters. Beginning with his great-great-grandmother Nampeyo, down through great-grandmother Annie Nampeyo, grandmother Rachel Nampeyo and his mother Dextra Nampeyo, all achieved recognition for making fine traditional pottery. This inheritance has provided Dan Namingha and his son Arlo Namingha with a solid foundation for pursuing his own creative soul. Inspired by abstract artists use of ancient petroglyphs and icons from indigenous cultures, Namingha learned to transform, with deep understanding and authority, the symbols of his own visionary culture into contemporary art. In this painting, Namingha is experimenting with traditional forms in new ways reducing the face of a Kachina to its basic geometric pattern as seen in the left section of Montage Series 3. REF: Palm Springs Art Museum . . . #admMuseumSupport #admCaliforniaArtCrawl #admSupportsTheArts #ArtandDesignMatters #LetsGoToTheMuseum #VisitPalmSprings #VisitCalifornia #CultureTrip #CultureTravel #CultureTraveler #ArtCollector #ArtCollecting #ArtCollection #ArtHistory #ArtHistorian #ArtCurator #MuseumCurator #ArtAppraiser #NativeAmerianArt #PalmSpringsArtMuseum #PSArtMuseum (at Palm Springs Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Q4KCygo_H/?igshid=1usv5mcs4an0j

Photo by Andrew Kent American, born 1950 David Bowie, profile in suit, 1976 Chromogenic print Previously viewed at The Museum of Fine Arts - Houston - Icons of Style Exhibit - Courtesy of the Peter Fetterman Gallery #admTexasArtCrawl #admMuseumSupport #admSupportsTheArts #LetsGoToTheMuseum #CultureTravel #CultureTraveler #VisitHouston #VisitTexas #ArtCollector #ArtMuseum #art #artist #photo #vintagephotography #photography #iconicphoto #icon #DavidBowie #Houston #Texas #ArtandDesignMatters (at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6JvSg2ghbk/?igshid=1ldktp1anxl7s

Close up detail shot of a sculpture by Charles Umlauf at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas Photo Credit: Alice Lowe for the Art & Design Matters Texas Art Crawl #ArtandDesignMatters #LetsGoToTheMuseum #VisitTexas #VisitAustin #admTexasArtCrawl #CultureTrip #CultureTraveler #CultureTravel #ArtHistory #ArtHistorian #ArtCurator #MuseumCurator #ArtAdvisor #gallerist #admSupportsTheArts #admMuseumSupport #UmlaufSculptureMuseum #CharlesUmlauf (at UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BilfDD7HGPi/?igshid=10smpxinge9j1

Robert Colescott American, 1925-2009 Feeling His Oats, 1988 Acrylic on canvas Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 2000. With its loud colors and teeming but tight compositional structure, Feeling His Oats embodies Robert Colescott’s ability to incite social commentary through visual narrative. Tackling themes such as sex, politics, and race, Colescott did not shy away from social taboos in his art. This painting depicts a man who seems to be enjoying the luxurious life. He is surrounded by his material possessions, such as a car and money. However, he is not alone. Several recognizable figures fill the scene. Stereotyped caricatures of a black athlete and a “Mammy” figure are given prominence. Two well-known cultural icons – the Quaker Oats man and Superman – appear on a much smaller scale and, unusually, are rendered as black. Both humorous and provocative, Colescott prompts viewers to consider the history and meaning of these stereotypes and the tensions they may create in contemporary society. Reference: signage, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York Photo Credit: @DesignsByAliceLowe for the @ArtandDesignMatters New York Art Crawl #ArtandDesignMatters #admMuseumSupport #admNewYorkArtCrawl #admSupportsTheArts #LetsGoToTheMuseum #VisitBuffalo #VisitNewYork #BuffaloNewYork #NYC #NewYork #MuseumCurator #ArtMuseum #ArtHistory #ArtHistorian #ArtCurator #AmericanArtist #AlbrightKnoxArtGallery #art #artist #artgallery #gallerist #CultureTrip #CultureTravel #CultureTraveler #acryliconcanvas #ArtCollector #artCollecting #ArtCollection #CollectingArt (at Albright-Knox Art Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_mil0AE_B/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e6dtm5cstdja