Iberoamerican Folk Art at Natural History Museum

I visited the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park on Sunday.  It was a rainy day and a good day to be inside.  In enjoyed my friends the dinosaur bones and the African animals in their native scenes.  I also enjoyed the current exhibit entitled "Great Masters of Iberoamerican Folk Art."  This is work from countries speaking Spanish or Portuguese in the Americas and in Europe.  I met friends there for a great stroll and discussion of our favorites.  Here are photos of some of mine:

Africa

Lions in a scene from Maswa Reserve, Tanzania

The previous occupiers of this land.

Jaguares, 2011 by Amatenango del Valle from Chiapas, Mexico

Dragon and others by Leonardo Linares Vargas, 2001, from Mexico City.

Tree paying homage tamales, 2009, by Alfonso Castillo Orta, Izucar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico

Lion, 2008 by Manoel Gomes Da Silva "Nuca" from Tracunhaem, Pernambuco, Brazil

Chivas (multicolored buses) 2007 by Cecilia Vargas, Pitalito, Huila, Colombia
Burial of skeletons, 2001 by Alfonso Soteno Fernandez from Metepec, Mexico

Group of musicians, 1995 by Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico

Barrel cactus, 1999, by Hilario Alejos Madrigal, San Jose de Gracia, Mexico

Procession of Our Lady in Bethlehem, 2009 by Tater Camilo Vera Vizo, San Sebastian, Cuzco, Peru

Mask Careta, 2011 by Miguel Caraballo Garcia, Santo Tomas, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Devil Diablo (top) 2011 by Jose Gonzales, Panama
Achachi (Mask) (middle) 2009 by Edwin Alejandro Loza Huarachi, Peru
Majiganga mask, Mascard de Mojiganga, (bottom) 2011 by Jose Gonzalez, Panama

Mask Mascara 2008 by Priscilliano Candia, Altos, Cordillera, Paraguay
(Large Mask on Right)
The other masks on the left are from top to bottom by Ismael Gonzalez Lasaro, Costa Rica; Rafael Angel Gonzales Leiva, Costa Rica; Bernardo Pedro Gonzalez Paucar, Peru; Eribarto Miro Canares, 

Top Mask by Edixon Morales, 201 from Costa Rica; Bottom Mask by Melvin Gonzalez Rojas from Costa Rica 

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Crole couple, 2011 and Pareja de criallos, 2011 by Juan Antonia Bobato Jimenez, from La Habana, Cuba

 "May 2 Firing Squad," 2010 by Elbio Gutierrez, Madrid, Spain

"Anfora" 2009 by Eduardo Elias Munoz Lora, Colombia

"Jaguar," 2008 by Ciucarte Mehinalco, Brazil; table idol, 2011 by Narciso Coca Martinez, Dominican Republic; Banco de ave (bird table) 2008 by Uruhu Mehinako, Brazil;  Ensaladera (salad bowl) 2011 by Francisco Edwin Maldonado Irizarry, Puerto Rico; Figura (mask) 2011 by Saul Perez Soler, "Guatu" from Purto Rico

Carved wooden animals by Manuel Jimenez Ramirez, Oaxaca, Mexico