Museo Blaisten. The Andres Blaisten Museum is a virtual space where you can get to know Andres Blaisten's private collection of paintings, sculptures and engravings representative of Mexican plastic art. The virtual museum is made up of a large number of works by renowned Mexican artists from the New Spanish period to contemporary ones. Andres Blaisten has the largest collection of modern Mexican art in the world that is still in the hands of an individual, in some areas it even exceeds the collections of some national museums. This collection has been in recent times one of the most important forces in the development of art history in Mexico helping the work of art historians and critics. The museum has two aspects: the entire collection is available to visit virtually on the website and until October 2, 2012 part of it was physically exhibited in the Blaisten Collection Museum at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center in La Mexico City.1 Until then, the museum was sponsored by the Andres Blaisten Foundation. In the last two decades, the Andres Blaisten Collection has received increasing attention, both from art specialists and a wider audience. Key works from the collection have been seen in numerous important exhibitions in Mexico and abroad; Among them, Latin American Artists of 20th century, Pintura y Vida daily de Mexico, 1650-1950 and Mexican Modern Art, 1900-1950. A large part of the Blaisten Collection was hosted by the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center of UNAM, formerly the Ministry of Foreign Relations, for almost 5 years, from October 22, 2007 to October 31, 2012. It was in this space, which also houses the 68 Memorial, the Tlatelolco Museum, the Stavenhagen Collection and the Museum on display, 3 where the collection was physically located. The paintings that were exhibited at the CCUT belong to the first two thirds of the 20th century, among which are works by the most important artists of the period: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, MarĂ­a Izquierdo and Jose Clemente Orozco. The work of specialists belonging to the Open Air and Mexican Painting schools stands out. The works on display were rotated according to different curatorial exercises.
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