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unusual facts about Mexican mask-folk art


Museo Nacional de la Máscara

Museo Nacional de la Máscara (National Mask Museum) is a museum in the city of San Luis Potosí dedicated to Mexico’s masked dance and ritual heritage from the pre Hispanic period to the present.


Broken Angel House

The site has been compared to Watts Towers in Los Angeles for the ad hoc construction and is acknowledged for its value as folk art and as part of the cultural heritage.

Compton Verney House

The collections include Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800; Northern European medieval art from 1450–1650; British portraits including paintings of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Edward VI and works by Joshua Reynolds; Chinese bronzes including objects from the Neolithic and Shang periods; British folk art; and 20th century textiles including creations by Enid Marx.

Daniel and the Towers

Daniel and The Towers is a Made-for-TV movie featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.

Eric Jansson

A brick museum building houses a valuable collection of Folk Art paintings by colonist Olof Krans.

Felipe Jesus Consalvos

Consalvos has been described by art critic Roberta Smith as a "self-starting modernist" who is "nearly on a par with folk-art greats like Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez and James Castle." According to Smith, Consalvos' work "belongs to the collage continuum from Hannah Höch to Barbara Kruger." (Smith 2006).

Florence Dibell Bartlett

Florence Dibell Bartlett (1881–1953) was a Chicago heiress and folk art collector, who is best known for founding the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, the world's first international folk art museum.

Las Tablas, Los Santos

Las Tablas is a recognized national center of Panamanian folk: Art, music, gastronomy, architecture, culture and literature.

Marshalltown, Nova Scotia

Marshalltown was the birthplace of Samuel Edison, father of Thomas Edison (1847-1931), and it was also the home of folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) from 1938 until her death.

Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia

In September 2006, the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia opened on the grounds of the Sautee Nacoochee Center.

Sverre Malling

His work, notable for its precision and intricacy, entwine references to classical art, botany, the occult, psychedelia, folk art and children’s illustrations.

Tally Toor

Irish folk symbols carved on the stonework indicate that it was built by Irish navvies.

TrueRoots

TrueRoots' most recent documentary production, 'Songs from the Little Road', focuses on the folk art and culture of the Indian state of West Bengal.

Victor Brecheret

Brecheret's work combines techniques of European modernist sculpture with references to his native country through the physical characteristics of his human forms and visual motifs drawn from Brazilian folk art.


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