Not your Padre's Arte de la Imprenta
Julie Taymor's 2002 biopic, "Frida", might have left many with the impression that all 20th Century Latin American art could be bunched with either of two headliners: a) The ethnographic slash socialist murals of Diego Rivera or, b) The surrealist auto-vivisections of Frida Kahlo. But if I'm right, a little gem of a show now at Dallas' Latino Cultural Center may raise a few unibrows.
Jose Luis Cuevas "El Dr. Rudolph van Crefel y su paciente No. 1" Lithograph, 22 x 30"
"Art of the Print" is the road trip version of a bigger show from D.C.'s Art Museum of the Americas. But at just around 40 pieces on display (not so big), it's one of those easy pop-in drop-bys that could either round out a nice day of gallery hopping or simply fulfill your M.D.R. for visual art. Even in Dallas, we don't hear their names often: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco, Carlos Merida, Francisco Zuniga, Lasar Segall, Mauricio Lasansky, Jose Luis Cuevas, Luis Solari, Claudio Bravo, Oscar Muñoz, Rimer Cardillo, to name only a third. We should, though.
And perhaps more than any other show I've seen at the Latino, the vernacular architecture really put me in the mood for "Art of the Print". Designed by Mexico City's Ricardo Legorreta, the covered walkway past the zócalo (that means plaza) made me forget I was in the big D. And the intense primary palette reminded me of, okay, I admit it, Frida's Blue House.
Latino Cultural Center (DallasArtsRevue.com photo by J R Compton)
"Art of the Print"
Free and open to the public.
Now through July 7
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak (at Good Latimer)
Dallas , TX 75204
214.670.3320
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed Sunday & Monday.
