Folk art of Spain and the Americas : al alma del pueblo
Entry/Object ID
NK999.F65
Description
The 124 paintings and objects featured here span almost five hundred years and have been drawn from museums and private collections from every region of Spain as well as Latin America and the United States. The works demonstrate the vibrancy and appeal of objects designed to be purely decorative as well as those fashioned to fill specific needs. They range from wooden bread stamps used to distinguish a family's loaves and intricately crafted model ships offered to saints in thanks for deliverance from dangerous seas to glazed pottery introduced by Spaniards centuries ago and reinterpreted in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Ecuador. The text describes the full range of folk art expression that has been part of Spanish cultural life for hundreds of years and that was transformed into a new aesthetic after arriving in the Americas.
Context
Published on the occasion of the exhibition El Alma del Pueblo: Spanish folk art and its transformation in the Americas, organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Lexicon
Search Terms
folk art--exhibitions, folk art--latin america, folk art--spain
