Llegan fotos del #MeadowsMuseum de Dallas con las obras de la 1a exposición de #RubénGuerrero en EEUU.
Cuando en 2025 fue seleccionado en el programa #ArtistSpotlight del Meadows y la #FundaciónARCO, lo contamos en #LasMañanasdeRNE con #JosepCuní.
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Image credit: Rubén Guerrero, Composición con amarillo P.M, 2015. Photo courtesy of Galería Luis Adelantado.
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Discover new perspectives on one of Spain’s most intriguing artists and the vibrant artistic networks of his time.
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Image credit: Josefa de Obidos, Still Life, 1680, The Meadows Museum
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Painted during 1936–1938, this portrait comes from French artist Jean Despujols’ time documenting life in French Indochina. It is shaped by the unequal structures of colonial travel and commissioning, but also by the artist’s insistence on close observation. The title keeps the sitter’s identity tethered to place (“congai” meaning “girl/daughter” in Vietnamese), suggesting a lived geography rather than an anonymous exoticism. Yet the most enduring “story” here is carried by her gaze that is direct, unembellished, and self-possessed. With no distracting props, she becomes the center of meaning with her presence, not the setting, doing the work. She is Hiếu (Hieu), a young Vietnamese woman sitting close to the picture plane against a quiet, warm beige background. Her posture is upright but relaxed, shoulders angled slightly as her head turns toward us. She has a warm medium-light brown complexion and dark brown eyes that meet us with a steady, searching calm. Her black hair is parted at the center and smoothed back into a low, tidy style. Small pearl-like stud earrings catch a pinprick of light. She wears a crisp white, high-collared top that fastens with dark buttons at the neck and shoulder. The fabric is painted with careful shifts of shadow that makes it feel cool and lightly starched. The lighting is soft and even, brightening the bridge of her nose and cheekbones while leaving gentle shadows beneath her chin and along the collar. Her lips are slightly parted, and the overall effect is intimate so it feels less a posed “type” than a person paused mid-thought. Collected by Algur H. Meadows and preserved within the founding Indochina holdings of the Meadows Museum of Art, the painting invites a double reading: as a record produced within its era’s power dynamics, and as a quietly resistant image of individual dignity that still asks us to carefully and ethically look back.
“Hieu, Congai of Phu-Vang” by Jean Despujols (French) - Oil / 1936–1938 - Meadows Museum of Art (Shreveport, Louisiana) #WomenInArt #MeadowsMuseumofArt #JeanDespujols #Despujols #PortraitofaGirl #VietnamArt #art #artText #artwork #arte #BlueskyArt #Portrait #FrenchArtist #MeadowsMuseum #AsianArt
#cuadrodeldía El barón Ferdinand Carl von Stumm, 1890 (Raimundo #Madrazo y Garreta 1841-1920) #MeadowsMuseum Dallas #art Pintor cosmopolita y de refinada técnica que brilla en retrato y pintura de género #FelizMartes A vivir, pese a los accidentes en la vida 🥹
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Portrait of the Duchess of Arión, Marchioness of Bay (Retrato de la duquesa de Arión, marquesa de Bay) by Spanish artist Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta places the slim, elongated figure of the duchess slightly left of center, strongly and distinctly outlined against both earth and sky. She pauses, tall and poised, half-turned towards us, close up, in the near foreground, much larger than real life, so that she seems to acquire mythic dimensions transforming her, for a moment, into a universal icon. The quiet dignity of her posture, the perfection of her exquisite oval face, and the opalescent skin-tones of her arms and shoulders are all marvelous. Zuloaga knew how to translate into paint the tactile reality of elegant fabrics and the way light acts upon them. He captures the golden metallic glint glancing off the stiff blue-green moiré of her gown. He recreates the sensuous drift of the black lace mantilla floating down from the peineta (a high Spanish comb), in contrast to the weighty softness of the traditional shawl (mantón de Manila). This is not only a faithful representation of the outward appearance of the Duchess, it also suggests something beneath that, some mystery that we are invited to explore. When we approach the royal beauty and meet her eyes, candidly returning our gaze, and when her lips, slightly parted in a smile, seem to be inviting us to join her on her walk, we find ourselves in front of an enigma. Where is she going? What is the meaning of the turbulent sky? Zuloaga was born in 1870 and passed away in 1945; meaning, he lived through the Spanish American War, two World Wars, the Russian Revolution, and the Spanish Civil War. Turbulence was the background to Spanish life then. His friends and admirers recognized his passionate devotion to Spain, and said of him that he not only painted Spain, he “painted in Spanish.”
“Retrato de la duquesa de Arión, marquesa de Bay” by Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (Spanish) - Oil on canvas / 1918 - Meadows Museum (Dallas, Texas) #WomenInArt #art #PortraitofaWoman #ArtText #artwork #portraitofalady #SpanishArtist #IgnacioZuloagayZabaleta #IgnacioZuloaga #Zuloaga #SMU #MeadowsMuseum
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🖼️ Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Female Figure (Sibyl with Tabula Rasa), c. 1648.
Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. MM.74.01.
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Visited the lovely #MeadowsMuseum on the campus of SMU in Dallas. We'll worth a visit if you're in town!
