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Purchased with funds provided by the Ewing Halsell Foundation.

Entre Dos Almas

Purchased with funds provided by the Ewing Halsell Foundation.
Purchased with funds provided by the Ewing Halsell Foundation.
Contact us at copyright@samuseum.org for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Ansen Seale. © Manuel Felguérez

Entre Dos Almas

Artist: (Mexican, 1928 - 2020)
Place made:Mexico
Date: 1992
Dimensions:
39 1/2 x 47 1/2 in. (100.3 x 120.7 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Ewing Halsell Foundation
Object number: 93.38
Copyright: © Manuel Felguérez
Label Text
Organic shapes coexist with geometric forms here as do textured surfaces with smooth surfaces and gestural marks with planes of flat color. Even the artist’s palette creates a dichotomy. Cool grays evoke industrial machines, while warmer tones suggest the earth.

Manuel Felguérez explored various approaches to abstraction in painting, sculpture, and metal assemblages. He was a leading figure of La Ruptura (“The Break”), a movement that defined a generation of young Mexican artists in the 1950s and ’60s. Previously, Mexican modernists favored figurative art with socio-political and nationalistic themes exemplified by Diego Rivera and the muralists. La Ruptura, instead, embraced the universal language of abstraction.

(Lana Meador, 2023)

En esta obra coexisten formas orgánicas con formas geométricas, superficies texturizadas con superficies lisas y trazos gestuales con áreas de color plano. Incluso la paleta del artista crea una dicotomía. Tonos grises fríos evocan máquinas industriales, mientras que los tonos más cálidos sugieren la tierra.

Manuel Felguérez explora la abstracción de distintas maneras en la pintura, la escultura y ensamblajes metálicos. Fue una figura prominente en el movimiento de la Ruptura, un movimiento que definió a una generación de jóvenes artistas mexicanos de los cincuenta y los sesenta. Anteriormente, los modernistas mexicanos preferían el arte figurativo con temas sociopolíticos y nacionalistas, ejemplificados por Diego Rivera y los muralistas. Sin embargo, la Ruptura adoptó el idioma universal de la abstracción.

(Lana Meador, 2023)
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