Fraternal Felicity
Today is Brother's Day, a celebration of brotherhood, whether biological, fraternal, union, or otherwise.
Artist Jesse Treviño painted a family portrait of his brothers in Mis Hermanos. Treviño has said that the family structure and social organization of the Chicano community provides a reference point for his work. Like snapshots, the portraits and street scenes he paints of Mexican American neighborhoods in San Antonio reveal the personal character of people and places he knows. "I don't deal with the past, yesterday, or Mexico as such," he has said. "I paint who we are today."
To view this artwork in person, hurry to see Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Palm Springs, California. It closes its run at Palm Springs Desert Museum on May 26, 2002!
Source: Virginia Mecklenburg. Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).
Pictured: Jesse Treviño, born Mexico 1946, Mis Hermanos, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 70 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Lionel Sosa, Ernest Bromley, Adolfo Aguilar of Sosa, Bromley, Aguilar and Associates.
Today is Brother's Day, a celebration of brotherhood, whether biological, fraternal, union, or otherwise.
Artist Jesse Treviño painted a family portrait of his brothers in Mis Hermanos. Treviño has said that the family structure and social organization of the Chicano community provides a reference point for his work. Like snapshots, the portraits and street scenes he paints of Mexican American neighborhoods in San Antonio reveal the personal character of people and places he knows. "I don't deal with the past, yesterday, or Mexico as such," he has said. "I paint who we are today."