Hispanic and Latinx Life and Culture: Dual Credit - Columbus

Smithsonian collections reflect the rich diversity of Latino art and artists. The Smithsonian American Art Museum's growing Latino art collection represents the rich contributions of Latinos to our country from the colonial period to the present with artworks that range from colonial religious works and woven textiles to abstract expressionist paintings and contemporary installations.

Smithsonian collections reflect the rich diversity of Latino art and artists. The Smithsonian American Art Museum's growing Latino art collection represents the rich contributions of Latinos to our country from the colonial period to the present with artworks that range from colonial religious works and woven textiles to abstract expressionist paintings and contemporary installations.

As a significant influence on 20th-century art, Pablo Picasso was an innovative artist who experimented and innovated during his 92-plus years on earth. He was not only a master painter but also a sculptor, printmaker, ceramics artist, etching artist and writer.

Juan Gris was born José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez in Madrid on March 23, 1887. He studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas in Madrid from 1902 to 1904, during which time he contributed drawings to local periodicals. From 1904 to 1905 he studied painting with the academic artist José Maria Carbonero. In 1906 he moved to Paris, where he lived for most of the remainder of his life.

Miguel de Cervantes, in full Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, (born September 29?, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died April 22, 1616, Madrid), Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. His novel Don Quixote has been translated, in full or in part, into more than 60 languages. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Betancourt came from a wealthy family of the insular nobility. His father was a Knight of the order of Calatrava and provincial militia captain, and his mother was the daughter of the Marquis de Villafuerte, José Alonso de Molina Ponte and Castilla. From a very young manifests a powerful inventiveness and a clear penchant for experimental science.

Alejandro Zaera Polo is a Spanish-born American contemporary architect and founder of London and New York based Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML).

Antoni Gaudí was a Barcelona-based Spanish architect whose free-flowing works were greatly influenced by nature.

Although now not as well known as his contemporaries Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, he was responsible for a number of landmark buildings, was very prolific, and could turn his hand to many styles, including neo-Gothic, neo-Baroque and Modernista. He qualified as an architect in 1882, and one of his earliest works, together with Josep Domènech i Estapà, was the Palau de Justícia in Barcelona.