#mel casas

[mrdirtybear]

‘Self Portrait’ by Mel Casas (1929-2014). Here is the website dedicated to Mr Casas.

[hyperallergic]

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Over the course of 20 years, Mel Casas (1929–2014) painted 150 “Humanscapes,” massive compositions that evoke drive-in movie theaters, Western landscape painting, and classical still-lifes. While the San Antonio–based Chicano painter and cofounder of the Con Safos group was highly regarded by local artists, he was relatively underrecognized by art institutions.

In San Antonio, a Chicano Painter Who Paired Pop Art with Pointed Politics

[offwhitelikeme]

Mel Casas feels so contemporary RN — am saddened I never got a chance to meet the man before his passing. If you’re in San Antonio please come by and check out the exhibit.

Getting the Big Picture: Mel Casas and the Politics of the 1960s and 1970s

Curated by Dr. Ruben C. Cordova

[chicanoarthistory]

Chicano Art Video: E. Carmen Ramos explains “Humanscape 62″

Published on Sep 30, 2013

In this series, E. Carmen Ramos, curator of Latino art, discusses the exhibition "Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This episode looks at the painting "Humanscape 62" by Melesio Casas. http://www.americanart.si.edu/collect... "Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art" presents the rich and varied contributions of Latino artists in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, when the concept of a collective Latino identity began to emerge. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's pioneering collection of Latino art. It explores how Latino artists shaped the artistic movements of their day and recalibrated key themes in American art and culture. http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibit...

[offwhitelikeme]

YOU’RE INVITED TUMBLR,

Opening Reception: Getting the Big Picture: Mel Casas and the Politics of the 1960s and 1970s

Friday, June 5, 2015 | 6-9pm | FREE

Museo Guadalupe

Curated by Dr. Ruben C. Cordova

[archivesofamericanart]

What is Chicano art? Is it Chicano art because it's an ethnicity thing? Or is it a subject thing? Those are the kind of questions I had that people didn't want to deal with.

Painter Mel Casas, interviewed here in 1996, passed away this past Sunday. 

Oral history interview with Mel Casas, 1996 Aug. 14 and 16, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution