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Past Exhibitions

Mexican Modern Painting

The Andrés Blaisten Collection is one of the premiere collections of 20th-century Mexican art. Assembled over the last 25 years, the collection normally resides at its permanent home at the Centro Cultural ...

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Experiments in Abstraction

Experiments in Abstraction: Art in Southern California, 1945 to 1980, addresses a generation of California-based artists who explored the possibilities of abstraction. In the years following World War II, a distinctive style of art,...

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A Harmony of Line

In the first half of the 20th century, Paris was the center of the art world. French artists like Henri Matisse and Robert Delaunay constituted one aspect of the avant-garde, but the many foreign artists working in the city were equally...

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Rubén Ortiz-Torres

The work by Rubén Ortiz-Torres (b. 1964), an internationally-renowned artist, curator, and author, featured in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man was developed from the early eighties to the early nineties when the artist was...

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From El Greco to Dalí

The San Diego Museum of Art is proud to be the only U.S. museum to show From El Greco to Dalí: Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection. This spectacular survey of Spanish art from the 16th...

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Life and Truth

Reviewing the Paris Salon of 1868, the novelist and critic Émile Zola pronounced classical landscape painting dead, “murdered by life and truth.” This, for Zola, was not a lament but rather a celebration. In place of...

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