Sin Título, from the series La Tempestad

Object Details

Artist

Arturo Rodríguez, born Ranchuelo, Cuba 1956

Exhibition Label

Rodríguez’s unsettled picture was inspired by Italian artist Giorgione’s The Tempest (about 1501), a puzzling painting that portrays a nude woman nursing a child under the watchful eye of a man, possible a soldier. Like The Tempest, Rodríguez’s painting gathers disparate elements and offers no clear narrative. Three figures stand, sit, or walk through an environment that lacks a stable ground, the emotional intensity evoking the uprootedness of exile or the upheaval of troubled times.

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Liza and Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga

1998

Object number

2013.18

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Painting

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

50 x 42 in. (127.0 x 106.7 cm)

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department

Painting and Sculpture

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

Figure group

Architecture Exterior\domestic\house

Record ID

saam_2013.18

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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