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Blanton Museum of Art

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The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe. [1]

80 relations: Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Jacob Miller, Alice Neel, American Alliance of Museums, Antonio da Correggio, Archer Milton Huntington, Armando Reverón, Art museum, Austin, Texas, Brice Marden, Byron Kim, Byzantine architecture, Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence, Charles White (artist), Cildo Meireles, Claude Lorrain, Conceptual art, Contemporary art, Daniele Crespi, Dean Cornwell, Diego Rivera, Donald Moffett, Drawing, El Anatsui, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Tenney Johnson, G.I. Bill, George Romney (painter), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Glenn Ligon, Guercino, Harry Ransom Center, Hendrik Goltzius, Henri Matisse, Henry Farny, Herzog & de Meuron, James A. Michener, Jesús Rafael Soto, Joaquín Torres-García, Larry Speck, Latin American art, Luca Cambiasi, Lygia Clark, Maynard Dixon, Minimalism, Modern art, Natalie Frank, Nina Katchadourian, Old Master, ..., Oscar E. Berninghaus, Paolo Veronese, Parmigianino, Peter Hurd, Peter Paul Rubens, Postminimalism, Printmaking, Ransome Gillett Holdridge, Raphael, Romanesque architecture, Rothko Chapel, Rufino Tamayo, Simon Vouet, Solon Borglum, Steve Adler (lawyer), Susan Philipsz, Switzerland, Tarsila do Amaral, Tavares Strachan, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Teresita Fernández, Thomas C. Lea III, Thomas Hart Benton (painter), Thomas Hill (painter), Thomas Moran, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Wifredo Lam, William Robinson Leigh, Yayoi Kusama. Expand index (30 more) »

Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was an American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.

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Alfred Jacob Miller

Alfred Jacob Miller (January 2, 1810 – June 26, 1874) was an American artist best known for his paintings of trappers and Native Americans in the fur trade of the western United States.

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Alice Neel

Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers.

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American Alliance of Museums

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), formerly the American Association of Museums, is a non-profit association that has brought museums together since its founding in 1906, helping develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and advocating on issues of concern to the museum community.

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Antonio da Correggio

Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as Correggio, was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century.

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Archer Milton Huntington

Archer Milton Huntington (March 10, 1870 – December 11, 1955) was the son of Arabella (née Duval) Huntington and the stepson of railroad magnate and industrialist Collis P. Huntington.

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Armando Reverón

Armandro Reverón (1889–1954) was a Venezuelan painter and sculptor, precursor of Arte Povera and considered one of the most important of the 20th century in Latin America.

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Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Brice Marden

Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938), is an American artist, generally described as Minimalist, although his work may be hard to categorize.

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Byron Kim

Byron Kim (born in 1961 in La Jolla, California) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Byzantine architecture

Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Later Roman or Eastern Roman Empire.

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Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence

The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary), often referred to as the Matisse Chapel or the Vence Chapel, is a small Catholic chapel located in the town of Vence on the French Riviera.

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Charles White (artist)

Charles Wilbert White, Jr. (April 2, 1918 – October 3, 1979) was an American artist known for his chronicling of African American related subjects in paintings and murals.

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Cildo Meireles

Cildo Meireles (born 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor.

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Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.

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Conceptual art

Conceptual art, sometimes simply called conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

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Contemporary art

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the late 20th century or in the 21st century.

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Daniele Crespi

Daniele Crespi (159819 July 1630) was an Italian painter and draughtsman.

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Dean Cornwell

Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 – December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist.

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Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter.

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Donald Moffett

Donald Moffett (born January 20, 1955) is an American painter.

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Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium.

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El Anatsui

El Anatsui (born 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.

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Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism.

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Frank Tenney Johnson

Frank Tenney Johnson (June 26, 1874 – January 1, 1939) was a painter of the Old American West, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as "The Johnson Moonlight Technique".

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G.I. Bill

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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George Romney (painter)

George Romney (26 December 1734 – 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice.

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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 16095 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school.

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Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (born 1960, pronounced Lie-gōne) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity.

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Guercino

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666), best known as Guercino, or il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the United States and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Hendrik Goltzius

Hendrick Goltzius (January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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Henry Farny

Henry François Farny (15 July 1847 Ribeauvillé – 23 December 1916) was a French-born United States painter and illustrator.

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Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,"." Herzog & de Meuron.

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James A. Michener

James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 books, most of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history.

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Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 – January 14, 2005) was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter.

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Joaquín Torres-García

Joaquín Torres García (28 July 1874 – 8 August 1949) was a Spanish Uruguayan artist painter, sculptor, muralist, novelist, writer, teacher and theorist, active in Spain, United States, Italy, France and Uruguay.

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Larry Speck

Lawrence (Larry) Speck is the principal of Austin-based architecture and engineering firm, Page, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and holds the W. L. Moody Centennial Professorship in Architecture.

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Latin American art

Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, as well as Latin Americans living in other regions.

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Luca Cambiasi

Luca Cambiasi, also known as Luca Cambiaso and Luca Cangiagio (being Cangiaxo /kaŋˈd͡ʒaːʒu/ the surname in Ligurian; 18 November 1527 – 6 September 1585) was an Italian painter and draftsman and the leading artist in Genoa in the 16th century.

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Lygia Clark

Lygia Clark (Belo Horizonte, October 23, 1920 – Rio de Janeiro, April 25, 1988) was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work.

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Maynard Dixon

Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was an American artist whose body of work focused on the American West.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Modern art

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophy of the art produced during that era.

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Natalie Frank

Natalie Frank is an American artist currently living and working in New York City.

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Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian (Նինա Խաչատուրյան; born 1968) is an Armenian-American interdisciplinary artist.

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Old Master

Sleeping Venus'' (c. 1510), Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master"), Christies.com.

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Oscar E. Berninghaus

Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (October 2, 1874 – April 27, 1952) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.

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Paolo Veronese

Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter, based in Venice, known for large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).

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Parmigianino

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino ("the little one from Parma"); 11 January 150324 August 1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma.

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Peter Hurd

Peter Hurd (February 22, 1904 - July 9, 1984) was an American painter who lived and worked in San Patricio, New Mexico.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist.

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Postminimalism

Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 569.

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Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

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Ransome Gillett Holdridge

Ransome Gillet Holdredge (1836 - 1899) was an early San Francisco school painter, specializing in Northern California landscapes.

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Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches.

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Rothko Chapel

The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas, founded by John and Dominique de Menil.

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Rufino Tamayo

Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.

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Simon Vouet

Simon Vouet (9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France.

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Solon Borglum

Solon Hannibal de la Mothe Borglum (December 22, 1868 – January 31, 1922) was an American sculptor.

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Steve Adler (lawyer)

Stephen Ira Adler (born March 23, 1956) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who is the Mayor of Austin, Texas, since January 6, 2015.

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Susan Philipsz

Susan Mary Philipsz OBE (born 1965) is a Scottish artist who won the 2010 Turner Prize.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Tarsila do Amaral

Tarsila do Amaral, (September 1, 1886 – January 17, 1973), known simply as Tarsila, is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, described as "the Brazilian painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style."Lucie-Smith, Edward.

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Tavares Strachan

Tavares Henderson Strachan (born December 16, 1979) is a contemporary, conceptual artist whose multi-media installations investigate science, technology, mythology, history, and exploration.

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Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler

Teresa Hubbard (born 1965, Dublin, Ireland) and Alexander Birchler (born 1962, Baden, Switzerland), often shortened to Hubbard / Birchler, are an American-Swiss artist duo who make short films and photographs about the construction of narrative time and space.

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Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández (born May 12, 1968) is a visual artist best known for her prominent public sculptures and unconventional use of materials.

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Thomas C. Lea III

Thomas Calloway "Tom" Lea III (July 11, 1907 – January 29, 2001) was an American muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist, and historian.

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Thomas Hart Benton (painter)

Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist.

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Thomas Hill (painter)

Thomas Hill (September 11, 1829 – June 30, 1908) was an American artist of the 19th century.

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Thomas Moran

Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA) is a college within The University of Texas at Austin, with its major facilities located on the main university campus in Austin, Texas.

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Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla (December 8, 1902 – September 11, 1982), better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture.

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William Robinson Leigh

William Robinson Leigh (September 23, 1866 – March 11, 1955) was an American artist who specialized in Western scenes.

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Yayoi Kusama

is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanton_Museum_of_Art

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