Museo de Arte Moderno (National Museum of Modern Art)
Mexico City’s national Museum of Modern Art, located just slightly northeast of Chapultapec Castle in Chapultapec Park. The main building is a round, two-story structure with a central staircase. Two of the museum’s four spaces showcase the permanent collection, which also contains works by Mexico’s other modern masters.
Artists
Raul Anguiano, Lilia Carrillo, Leonora Carrington , Julio Castellanos, Pedro Coronel, Fernando GarcÃa Ponce, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Lilia Carrillo, Manuel Felguerez, Jesus Guerrero Galvan, Alberto Gironella, MarÃa Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo , Manuel Rodriguez Lozano, Roberto Montenegro, Gerardo Murillo, Juan O’Gorman, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Luis López Loza, Carlo Merida, José Clemente Orozco , Diego Rivera , Vicente Rojo, David Alfaro Siqueiros , Rufino Tamayo , Francisco Toledo, Cordelia Urueta, fishing rod Zarraga, Francisco Zuniga , among other things.
Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte Moderno) : Mexico City
Museo Nacional de Arte (National Art Museum)
This museum is located opposite to the Palacio de Mineria, near the main post office. It was built in 1904 and designed by Italian Architect, Silvio Contri, as the Palacio de Comunicaciones. The building has a magnificent staircase made by the Florentine firm Pignone. It houses and great collection of Mexican paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, during the 16th century to 1950. It has the largest number of paintings (more than 100) by Jose Maria Velasco in Mexico City.
Alameda Central [Historic District] : Mexico City
Alameda Central is a downtown oasis of greenery, fountains and statuary. The imposing Palacio de Bellas Artes, a performing arts venue and a must-see for its art-deco interior, is next to the park. In the part of the Centro Historico between Alameda Central and the Zocalo are several impressive buildings and museums, including the Palacio de Iturbide (an Italian baroque palace), Casa de Azulejos (the House of Tiles), the Correo Central (the lovely main post office), the Museo Nacional de Arte (a grand building with Mexican art exhibits) and Museo de Franz Mayer (religious
Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art (Rufino Tamayo Museo de Arte Prehispanico de Mexico): Oaxaca City
Rufino Tamayo was born in the City of Oaxaca, on August 26, 1899. His real name is Rufino Arellanes Tamayo. He does not come from an artistic background since his father was an employee, his mother, homemaker. He was acolyte at the church where he directed choirs, leading some people to notice a slight religious vocation in him.
In this environment, his fondness and interest focused toward music, and his parents wished for him to become a priest and a musician. Of his musical inclination,
The city of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes in western central Mexico. It stands on the banks of the RÃo Aguascalientes, 1888 metres above sea level, at 21°51′ N 102°18′ W.
The city was founded on 22 October 1575 and elevated to city status in 1816. It became the capital of the newly formed state when it was split off from neighbouring Zacatecas in 1835.
People from Aguascalientes (both the city and the state) are known by the whimsical Spanish demonym hidrocálidos.
The city is home to the first-division football team, Necaxa. Aguascalientes also organises the largest fair held
Exchange brings exhibit of art from Mexico
The first art exchange between Austin and its sister city of Saltillo, Mexico, has opened at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin.
"Hermanados en el Arte 2005: Austin/Saltillo" has had a short stay at Mexic-Arte, closing there today before reopening at the nearby La Peña center Dec. 2. It will remain at La Peña through Dec. 31.
The exhibit, whose title translates as "Friendship in the Arts," features more than 40 works by 15 artists in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
Before Texas declared its independence from Mexico in 1836, the region was part of the Mexican state
Aguascalientes : Aguascalientes State
Aguascalientes city (1990 pop. 455,234), capital of Aguascalientes state, central Mexico. The city is a pleasant health resort, noted for its mineral waters and vineyards. Its industries include railroad repair and the manufacture of textiles. Aguascalientes is built over an ancient, intricate system of tunnels constructed by early, still unidentified, inhabitants. Founded in 1575, the city was long a Spanish outpost; railroad development in the late 19th cent. gave it commercial importance.
Cultural life of Aguascalientes city
The city is home to the first-division football team, Necaxa. Aguascalientes also organises the largest fair held in Mexico, the
Tijuana City : Culture and education
The city has various schools of superior studies, such as conservatory music, dance schools, plastic art schools, schools for science of the arts, and with various universities and technical institutions.
The city is the seat of the COLEF (College of the Northern Frontier), an institution of scientific investigation and superior education. Their main focus is the study of the problems of the Mexican border with the United States.
For cultural activities, Tijuana has the CECUT, the Tijuana Cultural Center. As the cultural impression of the city, the CECUT has inside its installation, a theatre, lecture rooms, video
Museo de Arte : Guadalajara
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Museo Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a popular modern Mexican painter. He was a Zapotec Indian and was born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca. Tamayo was an outsider in post Revolutionary Mexico, politically neutral and opposing the muralists' commitment to a public, popular art. His own paintings draw on Mexican folk art and ceramics for their themes and in their rich use of colour and texture, but their sophisticated compositions are more closely indebted to Cubism.
In his paintings, Tamayo expressed what he believed was the traditional Mexico and did not follow the more politically based paintings
