La Guadalupana: Virgin Iconography from Self Help Graphics
November 28, 2009 - March 7, 2010
A selection of prints from the Gilberto Cardenas Collection focuses on the importance of the Virgin of Guadalupe as an image, icon, and symbol of empowerment in Chicano art and popular culture. Works made through Self Help Graphics, the community center and printmaking studio started forty years ago by a Franciscan nun in East L.A., underscore the relationship between community, religion and personal identity.
Alejandro Romero
L.A. California, 1993
Screenprint
Edition 8 of 66
Self Help Graphics
The Sleep of Reason: Goya's Influence in Spanish America
November 28, 2009 - March 7, 2010
The nineteenth-century Spanish artist Fracisco Goya, with his disquieting depictions of violence and corruption and his mastery of graphic techniques, inspired many twentieth-century artists of Spanish America. The stark style and unflinching approach to reality in Goya's prints provided a model for artists wishing to convey the darker aspects of modern life. Spanish American artists felt a sense of cultural affinity for Goya and drew from his example in depicting subjects such as warfare, madness, and alienation. This selection of drawings and prints from the Blanton's permanent collection features works by artists who were inspired by Goya, including José Luis Cuevas (Mexico), Ernesto Deira (Argentina), Armando Morales (Nicaragua), and Augusto Rendón (Colombia), among others. It complements the exhibition Goya: The Dawn of Modern Art, shown concurrently in the European print galleries.
Ernesto Deira
Untitled, 1966
Ink on paper
Gift of Barbara Duncan, 1974
Another Image of Mexico: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries
March 20 - July 4, 2010
Featuring forty-five iconic images of Mexico in the first half of the 20th-century, Another Image of Mexico: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez examines the life and work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Commonly referred to as the father of Mexican photography, Bravo is considered one of the most important figures in the development of modernism in Mexico. Organized as part of the University of Texas' celebration of the Mexican Bicentennial, the exhibition will also include photographs by Bravo&39;s contemporaries, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand and others, drawn from the collections of The Blanton and The Harry Ransom Center.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
El ensueño [The Daydream], from Fifteen Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1931
Silver print
Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1975
