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Art about Art

Often New Mexico artists have responded to national and international aesthetic developments. Examples of "art-about-art" include B. J. O. Nordfeldt's 1919 painting The Antelope Dance, which acknowledges Cezanne's images of bathers. Andrew Dasburg's cubist interpretations of New Mexico landscapes have roots in his studies in France. Agnes Sims interprets her Deer Dancers as cubist versions of kachina dolls. Patrociņo Barela carved four panels describing Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden after seeing pictures of the Sistine Chapel in Life magazine, and Joel-Peter Witkin's photograph, Las Meninas, New Mexico, acknowledges Pablo Picasso.




On Display January 25 through May 12, 2002 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe