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The 1920s through 1950s was a time of vibrant artistic connection
between Louisiana and Mexico. During this period, a series of
acclaimed Mexican art exhibitions brought the culture of modern
Mexico to Louisiana. By 1928, the New Orleans Times-Picayune had
proclaimed Mexican artist Diego Rivera ""the greatest painter on
the North American continent"" and encouraged Louisiana artists to
take counsel from modern Mexican art. Louisianan artists such as
William Spratling, Caroline Durieux, Alberta Kinsey, and Conrad A.
Albrizio began traveling to Mexico to learn from Mexican artists
such as Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, Ruffino Tamayo, and Carlos
Orozco Romero, with whom they became friends, colleagues, and
frequent collaborators. In spring of 2015, the LSU Museum of Art in
Baton Rouge, LA presented Mexico in New Orleans: A Tale of Two
Americas, the first major museum exhibition to explore this
artistic exchange. The exhibition featured more than 80 works,
drawn from the LSU Museum of Art's collection, by Diego Rivera and
Caroline Durieux, as well as paintings, drawings, prints,
sculpture, furniture, and decorative objects by artists like David
Alfaro Siqueiros, Boyd Cruise, Elizabeth Catlett, and William
Spratling borrowed from public and private collections, including
the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Latin American Library
at Tulane University. The richly illustrated bilingual exhibition
catalog tells the story of a decades-long dialogue between Mexican
and Louisianan artists that has generated artistic affinities that
persist into the present.
A wide-ranging study of Louisiana landscape painting that places
art from the region into a broader national and global context With
its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of
writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a fascinating,
untamed wilderness. Starting in the 1820s when French emigres
brought the Barbizon school to New Orleans, the state attracted
artists from Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the greater
United States who shared ideas and experimented with approaches to
the enigmatic scenery. Although Louisiana was in many ways an
artists' paradise, the land also bore the scars of colonialism and
the forced migrations of slavery. Inventing Acadia explores this
complex history, following the rise of Louisiana landscape art and
situating it amid the cultural shifts of the 19th century. The
authors engage not only with artworks but also with the issues that
informed them-representations of race and industry, international
trade, and climate change. These issues are then carried into the
present with a look at the work of contemporary artist Regina Agu.
Inventing Acadia establishes Louisiana's role in creating a new
vision for American art and highlights the continued relevance of
landscape and representation. Distributed for the New Orleans
Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: New Orleans Museum of Art
(November 16, 2019-January 26, 2020)
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