Saturday 6 July 2013

Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940

Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940
Royal Academy of Arts

"Mexico is truly the promised land of Abstract Art" (Josef Albers)
Diego Rivera, Dance in Tehuantepec (Baile in Tehuantepec), 1928.
Oil on canvas, 200.7 x 163.8 cm. Collection of Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. Photo Collection of Clarissa and Edgar Brontman Jr., courtesy of Sotheby's, New York / © 2013 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / DACS.
[Mexico] "is not a curiosity to be visited but a life to be lived" (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

«Royal Academy's Mexican revolution misses the bigger picture: Modernist Mexico's greatest artistic idea was mural painting on a gargantuan scale. But this show is confined to the attic», by Jonathan Jones at The Guardian, Tuesday 9 July 2013.

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