Alfredo Arreguin: Patterns of Dreams and Nature/Disenos, Suenos Y Naturaleza (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) (English and Spanish Edition)

Arreguin, Alfredo,Flores, Lauro

ISBN 10: 0295981784 / ISBN 13: 9780295981789

Edité par University of Washington, 2002

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Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 168 pages with full page, full color prints throughout, a lavish production in purple cloth HB covers, gilt print. This bilingual art monograph showcases approximately sixty vivid oil paintings by Mexican-American artist Alfredo Arreguin, featuring his signature intricate pattern-based style depicting Latin American rain forests, Pacific Northwest landscapes, environmental activism themes, and iconic portraits of figures like Frida Kahlo, published alongside the 2002 Bellevue Art Museum retrospective exhibition. Keywords: Mexican American Art, Jacob Lawrence, Pattern Painting, Bellevue Museum, Rain Forest Imagery, University of Wash, Bilingual Edition, Frida Kahlo, Pacific Northwest, Chicano Artist, Environmental Art, Latin American 2.

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• Titre: Alfredo Arreguin: Patterns of Dreams and Nature/Disenos, Suenos Y Naturaleza (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) (English and Spanish Edition)
• Éditeur: University of Washington
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295981784
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295981789
• Reliure: Oversize Hardback
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Poids: 2 kilogrammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

"ArreguA-naEURO(t)s palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." aEURO" from the Foreword by Tess Gallagher Born in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo ArreguA-n has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native MichoacA!n; the lush rainforests of his homeland and of the Pacific Northwest; Japanese ukiyo-e prints; sacred and endangered animals; gods and and totemic figures; icons like Frida Kahlo and CA(c)sar ChA!vez; and motifs including masks, eyes, and abstractly patterned tiles. But ArreguA-naEURO(t)s paintings, for all the apparent flatness of their surfaces, conceal an astonishing depth of perspective. The basis of their composition is a grid of colorful patterns applied to superimposed planes, and below the surface of each completed painting are many others, transformed by the artistaEURO(t)s strategic occlusions and erasures. The result is an exuberant, phosphorescent visual interplay in which images combine to form other images, yielding a potent narrative power and pointing up the profound, ambiguous symbiosis between human beings and nature, fiction and reality, and the natural and supernatural worlds. Lauro Flores reveals Alfredo ArreguA-n as "a genuinely American painter, in the real, hemispheric sense of this term" aEURO" an artist of magic, mystery, and revelation whose place in the history of North American art has already been secured.