Museo de Arte Costarricense
The Costa Rica Art Museum (MAC) is the art
museum located in San Jose, Costa Rica, housing over six
thousand works of art that contains photography, sculpture,
paintings and other international and national artworks, that
span the mid-19th century to the early 21st century. The
neoclassical style structure that houses this outstanding museum
was built in the late 1930s. The museum has the biggest
collection of Costa Rican artworks in the world, that includes;
watercolors, drawings, paintings, printmaking, sculpture and
photography, as well as holding an excellent library of works
with more than 1700 volumes by well known Costa Rican artists.
In their international gallery, they have acquire over 560
contemporary artworks that run the gamut from geometric art to
lyrical abstraction, with more works in the photo-realism
category, along with minimalism, conceptual art, art mater, poor
art, object art and neo-expressism. Another outstanding gallery
is the Juan Manuel Sanchez gallery that houses over 4000 works
of Juan, who was an educator, draftsman, poet and sculptor that
live in the nation from 1907 until 1990. His works make up the
nucleus of this excellent collection that is sure to give you
much enjoyment and pleasure while visiting the museum.
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