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support innovative programs that focus on Latin American issues in the areas of education, culture, health, and the environment. . The exhibition will be on view through November 4, 2001, and offers for the first time a close look at a facet of art from South America that until recently has been underappreciated. We are very pleased to be able to present this exhibition from the renowned Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, said James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. Not only is the work of these important artists too little known in North America, but collaborations between North and Latin American critics, scholars, and institutions are far too rare. |
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At first machinists and mechanics, angular and cubic figures people his paintings, but later came his great series of works on the circus, with all its pageantry and humanity. .30 M)or click here to view instant streaming options. After his country childhood he found the noise and grinding struggle of city life exciting but oppressive, so much so that at times the machine age seems to become an obsession in his work. In the 1914-18 war he fought at the front - until he was gassed - and was overwhelmed by another kind of mechanical oppression, the tank and the howitzer, the cannon and the airplane, all of which appear fragmented in his work. |
