Arte Latino in Orlando
Celebrate the holidays with Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum on view at the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida, now through February 18, 2001.Of the many skilled Chicano artists, John Valadez is one of the most highly respected by his peers. His draftsmanship is exquisite, and his manipulation of color in pastel or oil vividly brings to life the complexities and confusions of life on the border between cultures and nations. This very large-scale pastel drawing is based on an argument Valadez witnessed between two street vendors on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. He has turned the event into a surreal, dream-like story reminiscent of Spanish-language TV novellas and garishly colored crime photo magazines common throughout Latin America.
Source: National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996).
Pictured: John Valadez, born 1951, Two Vendors, 1989, pastel, 82 1/4 x 50 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment.
Celebrate the holidays with Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum on view at the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida, now through February 18, 2001.Of the many skilled Chicano artists, John Valadez is one of the most highly respected by his peers. His draftsmanship is exquisite, and his manipulation of color in pastel or oil vividly brings to life the complexities and confusions of life on the border between cultures and nations. This very large-scale pastel drawing is based on an argument Valadez witnessed between two street vendors on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. He has turned the event into a surreal, dream-like story reminiscent of Spanish-language TV novellas and garishly colored crime photo magazines common throughout Latin America.