What is a revelation to me in this posting is work by two Mexican photographers who I have never heard of before and I should have because they are very good: Manuel Carrillo and Flor Garduño. Carillo joined the Club Fotográfico de México at the age of 49. As James McArdle observes...
Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish were both about 23 when David Alfaro Siqueiros called them “the most promising young painters in either the US or Mexico.” He urged them to come to Mexico where he helped them secure a 1,000 square foot wall where they Painted The Inquisition also known as...
Sometimes dubbed Mexico’s joven enojado (angry young man), the 26-year-old Cuevas, wild and imaginative and pessimistic, ranks near the top of the new generation of Mexican painters. He received some notice in the United States early this year when the Evergreen Review translated one of ...
Also included are the work of artistsFrancisco Toledo(paper mask) andGermån Cueto(wood mask), and painters and printmakers whose names I didn’t record (sorry). Today, we often hide behind the mask we present to the world as a way of self-protection, self-preservation. In the days be...
Octavio Paz has done more than anyone in the 20th Century to define the Mexican people. He has limned their features in more than 50 years of poetry. He has celebrated Rufino Tamayo and their other modernist painters and illuminated the long-dark corners of colonial Mexico. And in the book...