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Mexican modern art began about thirty years after the 1910 Mexican Revolution. It's emphasis was on educating/propagandizing the public regarding revolutionary ideology, Mexico's history of interethnic/class exploitation and national identity. Its approach was that of "social realism", a fundamentally didactic function expressed mainly in large, mainly government sponsored, public murals. This "golden era" of Mexican painting declined around 1955 as the government, at the behest of the nation's capitalist oligarchy, underfunded public works art. The new art emerging from that time was known as "The New Image" (La Nueva Presencia) art, lasting only a short time. I studied painting at the San Carlos Academy of Art (Mexico City) in 1955, a time of change which I did not understand at the time.

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Good try, JLN, but ya missed the target by a wee bit. You're still in the Forum Help category. I think you're looking for the Art Forum Category. You'll find it here
http://www.able2know.com/forums/

Jst scroll down the list of forums until you get to the Art Forum then click on it and follow the same procedure. Click on the New Topic button and type your post (or copy from here and paste it there).

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Hi, JLNobody, I am very interested in all this. My first politization, well, no, I guess I am fibbing, but my first sense of politics as an adult was at college, when a boyfriend and I were walking down the slope to the student union and someone handed us a petition to get Siquieros out of jail. Who, I said? I ended up signing it (the boyfriend knew about Siquieros) and later on learning about Siquieros and Orozco and Rivera et al. At least learning somewhat. I loved the work, had never seen anything like it in my sheltered life, was energized by the bold painting, especially Siquieros'.
That was 1963.

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Looks like a moderator moved the thread for you. Just letting you know so you aren't confused. Wink

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Now that that is all settled, does anyone here like Mexican art, either of the muralists (e.g., early Diego Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros, to name only the "Holy Trinity" of Mexican muralism), or (perhaps by means of www.Goggle.com (images) the New Image artists, for example, Francisco Gorzo,Jose Luis Cuevas, Francisco Icaza, Emilio Ortiz, Artemio Sepulveda, Jose Hernandez Delgadillo, Benito Messeguer, Ignacio (Nacho) Lopez, Hector Xavier, Antonio Rodriguez Luna, Francisco Moreno Capdevila, Gaston Gonzalez Cesar, Leonel Gongora, Jose Munoz Medina, Rafael Coronel, and Arnold Belkin (also a muralist), to name a few.

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JLN, I don't know many of these fellows, except Cuevas.
I'm going to start looking in google, but also...we have in the Helpful Links Topic on this Art Forum, several sites with photos of different artists works.

Anyway, I will give links if/when I find them.

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I found Belkin, Luna, Cuevas, and Gongora. Have had trouble cutting and pasting tonight, will try again manana.

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Osso, good luck. With this computer I havn't been able to figure out how to "cut and paste". It was a snap on my old TRS80 (radioshack) and my Macintosh SE. I just have to get a hold of a manual for this Compaq Presario 1200 (designed for Microsoft, Windows 98), at least one I can read.

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http://www.banrep.gov.co/blaavirtual/artplas/icaza.htm

http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/archives/1998/belkin.html

http://www.adanigallery.com/Cuevas/main.html

http://www.adanigallery.com/other/Luna.html

(JL, I can cut and paste in the regular way, but am sometimes inconsistent with the URL button in the Post Reply window.)

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Osso, great links. Thanks.

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After all that, the Coronel one doesn't seem to work. I'll go back and add it in the old fashioned way.

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Here's some more - the site that interests me most right now is the peterlanger mural site.....

http://www.imagenzac.com.mx/2000/01/01/rcoronel.htm

http://artamerica.com/a4s/cor-muj.shtml

http://www.ollin.net/art/artists/siqueiros/

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/siqueiros_david_alfaro.html

http://webdemexico.com.mx/arte/pintores/orozco-icc.html

http://courses.washington.edu/danz/wi03/kahlo3/

http://www.peterlanger.com/Specialty/Details/Muralart/

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rivera_diego.html

http://www.adanigallery.com/Tamayo/main.html

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And I ran across a beautiful little pencil drawing by Rivera that I'll go back and link once I rest up from this batch.

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Rest up? I should think so.

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I didn't study the Siqueiros images at length.. I remember being very taken with a mural with a white horse in it, years ago. Hope I find it, perhaps on that peterlanger site.

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Ossobuco gave the link to a very important painter, at least as big as the "Holly trinity": Rufino Tamayo.

There are others who are, IMO, very much above some of the cited ones.

Remedios Varo. As good as Frida, to say the least.

http://www.honmex.com/eros/varo/gallery.html

Juan Soriano

http://mexico.udg.mx/arte/pintores/juan1.html

Alberto Gironella

http://www.arte-mexico.com/eguerrero/gironella/selec.htm
(not his best paintings)

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Agree, Fbaezer.

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Off topic, but on my mind - two other mexican artists I like, both photographers...
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/M/modotti/modotti.html
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a1830-1.html

Alvarez Bravo - masters of photography
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a1740-1.html

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By the way, Osso. In 1955 I saw Siquieros on the street (La Reforma) in Mexico City, surrounded by a mob of well-wishers. He was just released from prison (political prisoner, of course). Years earlier (perhaps in the 40s) my father met him at a party of Mexican politicos, musicians, and revolutionary personalities. I don't know if Siquieros was here IN EXILE or if that was one of the times he came to the U.S. to look into the development of polymer paints because of their durability (for out of door murals). I must have these dates screwed up. I don't know when polymers were invented--I vaguely recall that acrylics have been around for a little less than 50years. My father's dead now or I would call him and ask for the decade of the party.

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We had our honeymoon in Mexico City and Acapulco back in 1963, and the hotel where we stayed in Mexico City had a large mural painted by Rivera. Since that time, I've seen a few more paintings by Rivera, and your mention of the "national propoganda" in his murals just dawned on me.

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