So much to see at #CrystalBridgesMuseum of AmericanArt in BentonvilleAR. We spent parts of 2 days there & didn't even go in the museum!
Loved touring the #FrankLloydWrightHouse. We did #SkySpaceTheWayofColor by #JamesTurrell at sunset, it was so amazing we went back at 5:15AM for the sunrise!!!

There is so much to see and do at the #CrystalBridgesMuseum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

#Love by #RobertIndiana.

#NarcissusGarden by #YayoiKusama. 900 mirrored spheres that float freely in the pond and sometimes align in a #Fibonacci pattern.

There is so much to see and do at the #CrystalBridgesMuseum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. We spent parts of two days there and didn't have time to go into the museum!

"Florida Mexicana" depicts a young Indigenous Mexican woman offering a large bowl of vibrant colorful flowers. Mexican artist Alfredo Ramos Martínez balances sculptural form with a focus on pattern and color to create an image that is at once modern and retrospective. Despite being painted in 1936, at the height of the Great Depression, Ramos Martínez provides an idyllic scene of bountiful nature. The woman becomes an allegorical symbol of spring, new life, and hope. The woman is the central figure, positioned slightly off-center, facing forward, and her gaze directed slightly away from us. Her expression is neutral, neither joyful nor sad, but rather serene. She wears a reddish-orange dress. Her skin tone is a beautiful deep brown with her face and hands rendered with a noticeable boldness. The flowers in the basket are painted with visible brushstrokes, displaying the artist's style using colors from yellows, oranges, pinks, and purples, creating a vibrancy that contrasts with the background. The background of rolling hills of fields are a variety of tones, from light yellows and oranges to deep browns, which gives a sense of depth to the artwork. Gray and blue mountains in the distance create a sense of depth and space. The overall mood is tranquil and inviting ... as if the basket of flowers are being presented directly to us. Florida Mexicana was painted after Martínez immigrated to California. His style draws on inspirations from Mesoamerican art and his knowledge of turn-of-the-twentieth-century French painting, like that of Paul Gauguin, which he gained through studies in Paris.

Florida Mexicana by Alfredo Ramos Martínez (Mexican) - Oil on canvas / c. 1936 - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Arkansas) #womeninart #art #oilpainting #MexicanArtist #AlfredoRamosMartínez #RamosMartínez #AlfredoRamosMartinez #MexicanArt #CrystalBridgesMuseum #artwork #fineart

This captivating and emotional depiction of a woman in a supine position has the cool coloration and smooth, perfected lines that characterize Thiebaud's work. In 1963, Wayne Thiebaud decisively digressed from the confectionary art for which he is famous and focused on the formalist concerns of the human figure. Supine Woman, renders a young pale woman in white dress and heeled black shoes whose physical carriage conveys austerity and simplicity, aspects at the fundamental heart of Modernism. Thiebaud poignantly directs our attention to the woman's inscrutable yet focused expression through a calculated absence of a visual narrative, forcing the viewer to engage with her embedded supine psychology. It's a grand corollary to Thiebaud's preoccupation with the formalist concerns of the picture plane and perspective is his longstanding affair with color. His remarkable signature blue grey shadows endow his figure with depth. Her dress mimics the same painterly achromatic hue that frames her, and yet the suggestion of flesh and life are palpable in her rose hued face and extended legs and hands. It is likely not Thiebaud's intention to present us with an obvious emotional state, yet a psychological tome; a visual dissertation opulently painted and calculated. Wayne Thiebaud was an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. While still studying at Long Beach Polytechnic High School he worked briefly at the Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles. In 1938, he studied commercial art at the Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles and then worked in Long Beach as a cartoonist. After World War II, he attended San Jose State College and California State College at Sacramento, majoring in art. While working as an art instructor at Sacramento Junior College from 1951 to 1960 he experimented with various styles of painting, but after meeting Abstract Expressionist painters in New York in 1956 he began to produce works under their influence.

Supine Woman by Wayne Thiebaud (American) - Oil on canvas / 1963 - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Arkansas) #womeninart #art #oilpainting #tired #CrystalBridges #americanart #fineart #rest #exhausted #WayneThiebaud #Thiebaud #mother #womensart #CrystalBridgesMuseum #WorkingMom

That one time I had a community participation installation at Crystal Bridges American Museum of Art. #ArtInstallation #InteractiveArt #PublicArt #SculptureArt #LightArt #ContemporaryArt #CrystalBridges #CrystalBridgesMuseum #EurekaSpringsArtist #BentonvilleArt #ArkansasArtScene

"Conversation will explore women's well-being through the personal Journey Climate work and holistic advocacy of Jane Fonda and Mary Steenburgen at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. " #crystalbridgesmuseum #janefonda #marysteenburgen

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