Georgia Museum of Art to show "The Authority of the Mexican Muralists "

Written by Gertrude Holman Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:40

ATHENS, GA – From the Collection: The Authority of the Mexican Muralists  will be on display from July 19 to September 28, 2008, at the Georgia Museum of Art. This exhibition is sponsored by YellowBook USA, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.

Selected to correspond to the images in Everett Gee Jackson/San Diego Modern, 1920-1955 , this exhibition highlights artists from the museum’s permanent collection influenced by the prominent artists of the Mexican mural movement: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Sisqueiros.

The Mexican muralists created a modernist public art often with social and political commentary. Through trips to the United States for project, the Mexican artists profoundly influenced Depression-era art in America. Some American artists also traveled to Mexico to work and study with Mexican mural painters.

Several of the artists featured in this permanent collection exhibition are Lucienne Bloch, Jean Charlot and Ben Shahn, all of whom worked with Diego Rivera. Other artists included in the display are Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Dorr Bothwell, Lamar Dodd, Arthur Mathews, Fletcher Martin and Charles Sheeler, who often created art with social commentary and modernist aesthetics.

Georgia Museum of Art Information

Partial support for the exhibitions and programs at the Georgia Museum of Art is provided by the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Individuals, foundations and corporations provide additional museum support through their gifts to the Arch Foundation and the University of Georgia foundation. The Georgia Museum of Art is located in the Performing and Visual Art Complex on the East Campus of the University of Georgia. The address is 90 Carlton Street, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602. Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m., Sunday from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. and closed Mondays.

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