El Manantial (Spanish Edition)
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El Manantial
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My son turns 14 years today. It's the middle of summer and, because a new business, my household is about to hit our debt ceiling at the same time our country. What can I do to make your day special without spending much money?
The answer came to me slowly, as if it were a subject that my subconscious was a little afraid to mention, lest I shouted to her. My gift to my child that I could stop nagging for an entire day. I could not let him do what he wants for 24 hours in a row. It would be unprecedented.
May 12 – August 20, 2011
Walk into the east gallery at the Latino Cultural Center – into the Rene Alvarado show – and it seems immediately obvious Alvarado is a portrait painter. Spend some time really looking at these paintings, though, and you see that the magic of Rene Alvarado’s art is that he is a consummate visual storyteller, decorative artist, and beautifully technical painter as well.
Rene Alvarado is a San Angelo artist who spent his early childhood in Coahuila, Mexico. In 2009, Alvarado was honored as Texas State Artist. How would I describe his work based on this show? I’d say he’s a figurative painter who paints with whimsy in a magical style that reads at once very Latino, very Catholic, very metaphorical, and very personal.
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