| | |  Vallarta Living | Art Talk | January 2009 
Las Artes de Mexico Exhibition in Miami
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The Mexico Tourism Board and the Consulate General of Mexico join forces with the University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum to present Las Artes de Mexico, from the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum.
This traveling exhibit, which celebrates the rich and diverse artistic traditions of Mexico, will be open to the public from January 31st to April 5th, 2009. The exhibit takes a closer look at over 3,500 years of art and culture, from the ancient Mayans and Aztec worlds of to the 20th Century works of Miguel Covarrubias and Diego Rivera. The exhibit is part of a national tour that takes place over a three and a half year period and includes pottery, paintings, folk art, and prints.
Las Artes de Mexico explores the Mexican ritual traditions with artifacts from over a dozen Pre-Columbian cultures. Olmec, Mayan, and Toltec sculpture reveal scenes from an often-mysterious past. The arts of ancient Mexico demonstrate a unique view of the world, notably captured in the ceramic effigy traditions of Nayarit, Jalisco, and Colima. Another important facet of the exhibition is the Spanish influence portrait through the Colonial and religious art so distinctive in the beautiful colonial cities of Mexico such as Queretaro, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas or Guanajuato, just to name a few. The popular art is as well represented in the colorful costumes and glittering fabrics displayed to demonstrate the folk celebrations. Festivals and dances are also examined through a collection of colorful dance masks from the folk artists of Guerrero.
To conclude this comprehensive trip, Las Artes de Mexico examines both painting and works on paper during the development of the modern Mexican state. The exhibition includes a number of works by Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, among the most influential of 20th Century Mexican artists.
Las Artes de Mexico offers a broad tour through the amazing destinations in Mexico, an exhibit that excites the mind and awakens the desire of getting to know Mexico and visit its marvelous destinations that originally launched such a unique and complex art.
This exhibition is an example of the diversity and richness of a country that has such a variety of destinations, landscapes, architecture, art and attractions for the people to visit. The variety and complexity within Mexico is one of its mayor’s attributes. |
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