Blanton Museum Analysis

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Art Critique On Thursday the 21st 2016 I attended the Blanton Museum of Art located in Austin on the campus of the University of Texas. When I was looking for art museum’s to attend to I noticed that the Blanton Museum was the first museum to pop up on the internet, which made me think that this would be the best museum for me to go to for this project. When looking up this museum I learned it is one of the biggest in Texas with about 18,000 pieces and it was founded in 1963. After I entered the Blanton, there was a huge opening in the middle with a staircase at the back. I had the choice of entering the section of the museum that holds the temporary pieces to the left or going up the stairs to the second floor which holds the permanent pieces …show more content…

The use of shadows and dark colors in these paintings makes it seem like there is a light shining down from the right side of the paintings on the men and gives them even more detail and realism on their bodies and tattoos. I was also especially interested in these two painting because of how they show the history behind the lynching’s of Latinos during the 20th century in Texas. In my history classes I have always learned about the lynching’s and abuse towards African Americans but I had never learned anything of the lynching of Latinos. I don’t know why I have never known about this but I think that it’s great that Valdez decided to show this forgotten history through his paintings and make what happened to these people in the past known to people who had never heard of this. The last piece of Artwork that I was interested in was an oil on canvas painting called Portrait of George Gershwin in a Concert Hall created by David Alfaro Siqueiros in 1936. This painting was located near the painting by Valdez so I think this was where most of the Latino paintings were. This is a painting of George Gershwin playing the piano on stage at a concert hall with the audience members watching him. At the very bottom of the painting there is Gershwin who is playing the piano on the stage and to the left, right, and top of the stage is the audience

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