MEXICAN MODERNISM
Diego Rivera, Sunflowers, 1943, oil on canvas, 90 x 130 cm, 35 ½” x 51 ¼”
Mexican Modernism
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and their compatriots come to the Museum
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RIDA KAHLO, DIEGO RIVERA,
Mexican Modernism, defined as the
AND MEXICAN MODERNISM
period from the 1910s to the 1940s, is
features more than 150 artworks
perhaps best known for muralism. Works
from the Jacques and Natasha
of Mexican muralists David Siqueiros, José
Gelman collection. Most of the works
Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera are
were created in the era directly following
emblematic of this period, as Mexican
the Mexican Revolution. Frida Kahlo’s inti-
Modernists expressed pride in indigenous
mate self-portraits, Diego Rivera’s organic
Mexican cultural traditions and the abstract
modernist works, folk dresses representa-
styles gaining popularity in Europe at the
tive of the period, and the works of some of Kahlo’s and Rivera’s contemporaries are included. The exhibition offers a sense of Frida, Diego, and some of the artists and people in their lives. Frida and Diego’s distinctive personalities are Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Monkeys, 1943, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 63 cm, 32 1/8” x 24 ¾”
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WINTER 2021
Art. History. People.
featured alongside a close look at this pivotal moment in Mexican history.
ON VIEW FRIDA KAHLO, DIEGO RIVERA, AND MEXICAN MODERNISM February 6 – May 2, 2021
