Florida International University FIU Digital Commons Frost Art Museum Catalogs Frost Art Museum 10-13-2010 Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction The aP tricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum Frost Art Museum The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/frostcatalogs Part of the Fine Arts Commons, and the Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons Recommended Citation Frost Art Museum, The aP tricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, "Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction" (2010). Frost Art Museum Catalogs. 45. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/frostcatalogs/45 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the Frost Art Museum at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Frost Art Museum Catalogs by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. EMBRACING MODERNITY Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction Front Cover: Mateo Manaure, Untitled, 1977, Acrylic on wood, 56½ × 21½ x 1 1/8 inches, Art&Art, LLC Collection Alejandro Otero, Model- Project for Park Avenue, New York, 1982, Mixed media, 46 ½ x 15 x 15 inches Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami Contents Acknowledgements 6 Introduction 7 Director's Foreword 8 Dr. Carol Damian Embracing Modernity: Origins of Geometric Abstraction in Venezuela 9 Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig Embracing Diversity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction in the Sixities and Seventies 15 Maria Carlota Perez Exhibited Artists Miguel Arroyo 22 Armando Barrios