More at the San Carlos Museum

 

There were a couple more special exhibits at the San Carlos Museum when I visited last Wednesday.

One exhibit in a small gallery was devoted to art based on works of literature including the Bible and classical mythology.

"The Drunkenness of Noah"

by an unidentified 16th century Flemish artist

"Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist"

by an unidentified 17th century artist in the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens

"Daphnis and Chloe"

depiction of the Greek myth by an unidentified 19th century painter

a 19th century German lithograph depicting a scene from Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

"The Musketeer"

by an unidentified 19th century painter

inspired by the Alexander Dumas novel

"Faust and Marguerite"

by Auguste Jean Baptiste Maria Blanchard

19th century

inspired by the drama by Goethe

Another larger exhibit at the museum was called "Between Presence and Sense".  I really have no idea what the theme of the exhibit was.  The description was, quite frankly, a bunch of pretentious gobbledygook.  It was a collection of modern art, and, if you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I am not a big fan of a lot of what passes for art nowadays.  However, there were some paintings that I found interesting, even if they weren't something I would necessarily hang in my apartment.

"Landscape"

by Carlos Orozco Romero

1976

"Woman with Iguanas"

by Raúl Anguiano

1988

"Second Skin"

by José Chavez Morado

1985

"Recumbent Man"

by David Siqueiros

(The most famous artist represented in the exhibit, he was one of the big names in Mexican muralism.)

1973

"Insomnia"

by Carlos Orozco Romero

1965

"Two Women"

by Carlos Orozco Romero

1977