It is an incredible book worthy of study, reading and rereading, looking and looking again. Mexico, for all its corruption and violence; is also a repository of great muralists, a history of revolutionary culture and its' wonderful mix of peoples and ideas. It, too, is worthy of study, looking and more looking, then some more study since it, like the muralists paintings; is so much more that it seems at first.
Visit my Photoblog: Laguna Bacalar and Beyond and the Site: Beyond Cancun for a number of pictures of local folk art wall paintings that act as graffitti, advertising, signals for the semi-literate, and just exuberant use of color and image in the Mexican world. The muralist notion stays in the smallest towns with and without talent.
Article comments
1 - swingingpuss
Nice Review - naturalism is better aligned to South American culture today than to Western art sensitivities.
2 - Jet in Columbus
Well as long as you're enjoying yourself that's all that matters, isn't it?
3 - Kentjo
i find this text quite intresting but i had some questions about his work. for example night on the rich what inspired him to peint it? what does it mean and what does it litterly show?
does anyone have an answer on these questions, it would be verry kind
ken
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