Artful Insights: Avril Angevine’s Art Lecture Series

Diego Rivera: Art for a New World
Friday, September 12 @ 12 p.m.

Diego Rivera was one of the big men of 20th century art—big physically, in personality, and as an influence on American art at mid-century. His mural style was forged in the Mexican Revolution, and in his American murals, he achieved an incongruous synthesis between a reverence for the indigenous cultures of his native land and an appreciation of American industrial modernity. Overshadowed today by his wife Frida Kahlo, Rivera was a prodigious talent whose commitment to art as a political act still resonates. He didn’t believe in God, he said, but he did believe in Picasso.

Photography in Mexico
Friday, October 10 @ 12 p.m.

You know the folk art, the murals, the angular architecture. But Mexico has produced a stable of outstanding practitioners in that most modern of arts: photography. Like other genres of Mexican art, Mexican photography exhibits a tension between the modern and the Mesoamerican. Street savvy, elegant, surreal, or shocking—or, like Our Lady of the Iguanas, all of the above—Mexican photography shows us Mexico off the beaten track.

You may also like the following events from Napa County Library:

• This Saturday, 16th August, 10:00 am, Friends of the Napa Library Book Sale in Napa
• This Saturday, 16th August, 01:00 pm, American Mahjong (Yountville Library) in Yountville
• This Saturday, 16th August, 05:00 pm, Zentangle Class with Romi Marks (Online) in Napa, California

Also check out other Arts events in Yountville.