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Desafiando la pistola cargada de piroxilina de Siqueiros : José Luis Cuevas arremete contra la falsa pintura oficial
1959Following a trip through South America, José Luis Cuevas published this article to announce that in many countries there was no longer any interest in the “rubble” of the Mexican School of painting and its nationalist inclinations. In Venezuela [...]ICAA Record ID: 772239 -
Cuevas el niño terrible : en una ácida carta, traza la caricatura del conformista y se pinta a sí mismo como un francotirador enemigo de la vulgaridad, el adocenamiento y el lugar común
1958This text is a transcription of the letter that José Luis Cuevas sent to the Novedades editorial director, Fernando Benítez, and signed in New York on March 20, 1958. Here, the artist says he wished to respond to the “ire” that his previous [...]ICAA Record ID: 772094 -
Tamayo es de una ampulosa suficiencia : dice Siqueiros
1947In this interview, David Alfaro Siqueiros associates Rufino Tamayo with the formalism of the School of Paris, with the snobbish, bourgeois attitude of those who opposed political art. He acknowledges the sense of color and synthesis in Tamayo’s [...]ICAA Record ID: 755533 -
¿Cómo quiere que responda a Tamayo, en broma, o en serio?
1947José Clemente Orozco believed that opposition to political painting was nothing new in Mexico; it had been around since the start of the mural movement. Some painters tried to stamp out all forms of figurative or representative expression. When [...]ICAA Record ID: 755517
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