MEXICAN MODERNISM José Clemente Orozco, 1883. Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico – 1949, Mexico City, Mexico, Dead Woman, 1935, lithograph on paper, ed. 123/140, gift of Dick Brackett
ON VIEW JOSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA: LEGENDARY PRINTMAKER OF MEXICO Through May 23 LUÍS JIMÉNEZ: MOTION AND EMOTION Through May 15 FRIDA KAHLO, DIEGO RIVERA, AND MEXICAN MODERNISM Through May 2
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Exploring Mexican Influences ISITORS TO THE
explore how Mexican art
figures from his prints. Posada
responded to and shaped the
was an inspiration to the
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political and creative identity
Mexican Modernists, as he
the opportunity
of Mexico.
was illustrating local stories
MUSEUM THIS
to deepen their knowledge of
steeped in tradition and ritual.
the Mexican Modernists, those
José Guadalupe Posada
that they influenced, and those
As a satirist and chronicler of
José Clemente Orozco
who influenced them.
Mexican society of the time,
José Clemente Orozco,
In a trifecta of the artistic
José Guadalupe Posada
whose work appears in two
narrative of Mexico; José
created expressive images
exhibitions, inspired Luis
Guadalupe Posada: Legendary
reflecting and informing
Jimenez’s muscular, flowing
Printmaker of Mexico; Luís
the transitioning culture
bodies. Orzoco’s Dead
Jiménez: Motion and Emotion;
of Mexico City’s residents.
Woman is also a commentary
and Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera,
Posada’s skeletons, or
about class struggles
and Mexican Modernism
calaveras, have become the
that defined the Mexican
provide an opportunity to
most iconic and celebrated
Modernists.
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Art. History. People.
José Guadalupe Posada (engraver), Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (publisher), Gran fandango y francachela (Dancing and Revelry), ca. 1900s, type-metal engraving, The Posada Art Foundation.
