Four Self-Portraits

Alfredo Arreguín

1995

Oil on canvas

Seattle Art Museum

This is a densely patterned painting filled with intricate floral and organic motifs. The composition is a tapestry of repeating shapes and swirling lines in a rich, earthy palette. This is a densely patterned painting filled with intricate floral and organic motifs. The composition is a tapestry of repeating shapes and swirling lines in a rich, earthy palette. Step inside the magical world of Alfredo Arreguín where space and time has collapsed into a hypnotic tapestry of colors and images. It is as if long-ago memories have entwined with the present time, like an epic dream remembered upon awakening. Celebrated for his exuberant, highly patterned compositions that include iconic images of the Virgin Mary, Frida Kahlo, Mexican revolutionaries, Aztec gods, jungle flora and fauna, and the geography of the Pacific