Exploring Mexican Influences

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

Exploring Mexican Influences

VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM THIS SPRING will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Mexican Modernists, those that they influenced, and those who influenced them.

In a trifecta of the artistic narrative of Mexico; José Guadalupe Posada: Legendary Printmaker of Mexico; Luís Jiménez: Motion and Emotion; and Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism provide an opportunity to explore how Mexican art responded to and shaped the political and creative identity of Mexico.

José Guadalupe Posada

As a satirist and chronicler of Mexican society of the time, José Guadalupe Posada created expressive images reflecting and informing the transitioning culture of Mexico City’s residents. Posada’s skeletons, or calaveras, have become the most iconic and celebrated figures from his prints. Posada was an inspiration to the Mexican Modernists, as he was illustrating local stories steeped in tradition and ritual.

José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco, whose work appears in two exhibitions, inspired Luis Jimenez’s muscular, flowing bodies. Orzoco’s Dead Woman is also a commentary about class struggles that defined the Mexican Modernists.

José Guadalupe Posada (engraver), Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (publisher), Gran fandango y francachela (Dancing and Revelry), ca. 1900s, type-metal engraving, The Posada Art Foundation.