LACMA PLANS RIVERA EXHIBIT.Byline: Reed Johnson Daily News Staff Writer Following hard on the heels of its blockbuster Van Gogh show scheduled to open in January, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. will host a major retrospective of works by the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera this coming summer. ``Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution'' is being billed as the first major U.S. exhibition on Rivera in 13 years. Opening May 30, 1999, it will trace his entire career, emphasizing his contributions to muralism, symbolism, cubism cubism, art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907. Cubist Theory Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras. , the post-World War I ``return to order,'' social realism and surrealism. Including more than 100 paintings, prints and drawings - many on loan from Mexico and never before seen in this country - the exhibition provides further evidence of LACMA's desire to attract more visitors from L.A.'s burgeoning Latino population and to examine Latin America's contribution to modern art. A recent LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association exhibition showcased its acquisition from the Bernard and Edith Lewin collection of more than 2,000 paintings and works on paper by such artists as Carlos Merida, David Alfaro Siquieros, Rivera and Rufino Tamayo. ``This exhibition will allow us to explore the unique path forged by Diego Rivera in the history of 20th-century art,'' said LACMA director Graham W.J. Beal. ``The comprehensive collection of works illustrates Rivera's many contributions to international modernism.'' Born in 1886, Rivera is associated with the golden age of Mexican muralism, a synthesis of European art-historic influences, socialist ideals and the heritage and forms of indigenous Mexico. The exhibition begins with Rivera's student work in Mexico, then follows his departure in 1907 to Europe to study painting. While living in Paris, Rivera met Picasso, Leger, Modigliani and Chagall, and by 1915 was well into his cubist phase. Later he spent an extensive sojourn in the United States where he created numerous frescoes in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Detroit and San Francisco, in imagery that fused Gaugin with Aztec and Mayan. Like his late wife and fellow artist Frida Kahlo, Rivera is today perhaps more popular than at any time since his death in 1957. Organized by the Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) is, in Mexico's government, the cabinet member in charge of national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts (visual, plastic, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and through the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico) and the Cleveland Museum of Art Located in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, the internationally renowned Cleveland Museum of Art has a permanent collectionof more than 40,000 objects in 70 galleries. , the exhibition will first visit Cleveland; followed by LACMA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Palacio de Bellas Artes ("Palace of Fine Arts") is the premier opera house of Mexico City. . LACMA officials said additional information about the show will be released in coming weeks. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: ``Flower Day,'' a 1925 oil on canvas, will be part of a major retrospective on Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera. The show opens next May at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
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