Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

Sculpture, different odd sculpture. The styles seem to be endless. I had tried to put it all in a box. I don't think that is going to work. Or it is a much larger scheme than I realized.

And the Olmec realist heads are some of the earliest.

Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

Pottery.

I am already very interested in the Anasazi Pottery in New Mexico.

I was surprised to find that the particular designs I like are limited to New Mexico, though similar influences become spread out though generalized.

For example, the Mimbres seems only to be produced by Mimbres in Southern NM.

Even though the drawing seems to relate, as below.  Picasso being Spanish and then the Surrealists liking the 'primitive'--and into an elemental Guston.

Something to figure out here in this complex design.

A fetus coming from the mystery of the Universe-- much better than the Catholic propaganda we saw spread around Mexico City Cathedrals.

Another Guston like drawing. In Mexico the context was Siqueiros and Rivera and then thinking of Pollock and Guston in Los Angeles growing up?

Similar to NM Anasazi but still quite different. Especially in lack of rigorous Positive and Negative.

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Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

Sea Shell Motif

Interesting especially as we were off to the Yucatan and the Gulf.

At Quetzelcoatl Site.

Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

Anthropology Museum.

Reproductions from Quetzalcoatl site.

Yale University Art Gallery

Odd paintings from Trip across, Dallas, Atlanta, NY

Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art.

David Bates is a good artist. He lives in Dallas and paints along the Gulf Coast.

I think it interesting this David Bates in Dallas with Susan Rothenberg.

Kimball Art Museum.

They say this is a Michaelangelo, painted by the artist at age 13.

An amazing Mantegna.

Interesting to see a genre painting of workers in Renaissance High style.

Very Stylish eyewear. By Murillo.

A great Valazquez.

Great Goya.

Strange Gauguin looking like Van Gogh.

Also nice Delacroix. I like how the figures float like a little Frank Stella abstraction.

A very interesting Monet. (See Bazille painting below.)

I like the lines in these Mosaics.

Ammon Carter Art Museum.

This a Grant Wood.

A much earlier American painting-- looking like Picasso.

One of the best Doves, I think. Another nice one in Columbus, Ohio this reminded me of. 

http://bottsmuseum.blogspot.com/2008/05/columbus-museum-of-art.html

Hartley and Davis in New Mexico.

Dallas Art Museum.

Love the scale of this late Picasso.

A big surprise, I've never seen this Sisley very close to Vuillard, and Bonnard-- into Fairfield Porter--

The light makes a level of realism, which a number of American artists then realize.

Funny painting, see snake in corner. I think they used this painting for a Nacona Boot advertisement.

Crazy Moses Soyer. Wonderful  hand composition in the corner. He would have thought this out without photography, probably through sketches. 

High Museum. Atlanta

Cecelia Beaux.

William Stanley Haseltine.

I'd like to go  and paint this. The island of Capri. 

Bazille died before he got going but was Monet's friend and this is really a nice one, compare to the Monet above.

Another odd Monet. 

Mississippi State Art Museum.

Was the  thing I liked in the Mississippi Museum-- that made the trip worthwhile.