A painting on canvas of a giant, piñata-like head with violet eyes and streaming red and green ribbons, balanced on a cluster of standing figures. Behind them, adobe-style walls glow in yellow, green, and blue, with two tiny figures talking at a table at left and a crescent moon in the dusky sky. Signed lower left.
Dimensions: 28.5" w x 36.75" h
This painting is part of a show of work by Jose Guadalupe Guadiana (1929–2012) at Contact Modern, which also includes Underwater Conversation, Bird Piñata, Sun Piñata, Organic Blue, and others. Born in Sabinas Hidalgo, Mexico, Guadiana studied at La Esmeralda in Mexico City and assisted Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros on mural commissions. After moving to San Antonio in 1966, he turned to colorful, fantastical paintings, and his work is in the collections of the McNay Art Museum and the UTSA Art Collection.
Item #: A373
A painting on canvas of a giant, piñata-like head with violet eyes and streaming red and green ribbons, balanced on a cluster of standing figures. Behind them, adobe-style walls glow in yellow, green, and blue, with two tiny figures talking at a table at left and a crescent moon in the dusky sky. Signed lower left.
Dimensions: 28.5" w x 36.75" h
This painting is part of a show of work by Jose Guadalupe Guadiana (1929–2012) at Contact Modern, which also includes Underwater Conversation, Bird Piñata, Sun Piñata, Organic Blue, and others. Born in Sabinas Hidalgo, Mexico, Guadiana studied at La Esmeralda in Mexico City and assisted Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros on mural commissions. After moving to San Antonio in 1966, he turned to colorful, fantastical paintings, and his work is in the collections of the McNay Art Museum and the UTSA Art Collection.
Item #: A373