![]() Other examples include Orozco’s The Lynching (1934), a wrenching condemnation of racial violence from the portfolio The American Scene, No. One of the earliest Mexican modernist prints to enter the BMA’s collection, it shows Zapata and his horse standing over the dead body of a wealthy landowner as farmers crowd in behind them. “In the 1930s and 1940s, printmaking played a major role in publicizing and forging a distinctly modern Mexican identity.”Īmong the works in Crossing Borders that address social issues is Zapata (1932), Rivera’s lithograph of Mexican Revolution hero and agrarian leader Emiliano Zapata. “In Crossing Borders, one sees how the bold and expressive figurative imagery of these prints underscores the political, social, and cultural shifts taking place in the years following the Mexican Revolution,” said Rena Hoisington, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs. ![]() Crossing Borders is also the first exhibition to highlight the BMA’s outstanding holdings of works by Mexican modernist artists. ![]() ![]() The exhibition features 30 prints and drawings created in the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Elizabeth Catlett. in Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints, on view Novemthrough March 11, 2018. Los Tres Grandes (The Three Great Ones)-Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros-are among the artists featuredīALTIMORE, MD (October 26, 2017)-The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) explores an unprecedented period of cultural and intellectual exchange between Mexico and the U.S. ![]()
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