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Texas Waltz
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Color lithograph on paper, 56 in. x 39 in. Luis Jiménez created a series of artworks featuring dancers in honkytonks, dance halls, and fiestas. In the work, a mature looking couple dance the Texas Waltz, a contemporary style of the traditional waltz. The waltz originated in Europe in the 1700s and was considered provocative as couples held each other closely as they danced. Here, a man waltzes with his partner, who embraces him tightly. The artist used energetic lines to denote action and a bold red color in the woman’s top to indicate passion. The artist in other works depicted traditional Mexican dance, as in The Fiesta Jarabe sculpture, of which there exists five versions. His Fiesta sculpture represents the Mexican jarabe folk dance, often called the Mexican hat dance. One of his Fiesta Jarabe sculptures can be found at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry near San Diego, California. The sculpture was purchased by the U.S. federal government and erected in 1991. Describing the sculpture at Otay Mesa, Jiménez said, “It is a project that I thought of as a kind of bridge. I grew up on the border. I saw [immigrant] families crossing. My father was [an undocumented immigrant] from the time he was nine until I was born, when he was twenty-five. I decided that’s what I would focus on, and I’ll title it Fiesta, and people on both sides of the border will be able to relate to it.”
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