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Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917

Saturday, July 11 10:00a to 5:00p
at Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
Price: Admission is $8, $6 for ages 65 and older, free for children under 12; free each Thursday after 5 p.m.
Age Suitability: None Specified

Exhibition at the Meadows Museum focuses on the years Mexican artist Diego Rivera spent in Paris and his Cubist portraits during that early stage in his career. The show, which will be on view through Sept. 20 (June 21-Sept. 20) in the museum's second-floor gallery space, includes paintings and drawings from museums and private collections in the United States and other countries.
"Mexican Art at the Meadows," running concurrently with the Rivera exhibition, includes lithographs by Rivera and other Mexican artists. The show includes a portrait of Frida Kahlo by Rivera (he and Kahlo were known for their tempestuous marriage) as well as images of rural life in Mexico. On view through Sept. 20 in the museum's first-floor gallery space. Free admission.

Category: Visual Arts
Creator:  GuideLive.com 
Creator:  GuideLive.com 
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Meadows Museum
5900 Bishop Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75275
(214) 768-2516
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(no rating) 06/21/2009 - GuideLive.com - Scott Cantrell/Classical Music Critic

It's as a muralist that Diego Rivera is mainly remembered today – and for his turbulent, on-again, off-again relationship with Frida Kahlo. In the 1920s, along with his fellow Mexican artists José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rivera revived an art form that had been overshadowed since its glory days in the Renaissance. And its representational formality defied much of the thrust of modern art. (Full review)

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