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David Alfaro Siqueiros
You’ll see masterpieces by art luminaries such as FRIDA KAHLO , JOSÉ CLEMENTE
OROZCO, DIEGO RIVERA and DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS , as well as their important-
if-lesser-known contemporaries such as Dr. Atl (GERARDO MURILLO), MANUEL ÁLVAREZ
BRAVO, MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS, ALFREDO RAMOS MARTÍNEZ, CARLOS MÉRIDA AND
ROBERTO MONTENEGRO, among others. In addition, three historical murals by los tres
grandes (“the three great ones”)—Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros—are digitally re-created
and projected in the galleries.
“Mujeres de Sol"
“While some of the artists represented in Paint the Revolution may be familiar to visitors,
many of the names and images will be new to Houston audiences. We are grateful to our
colleagues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
for making this exhibition possible, and we are thrilled to offer visitors the opportunity to
examine firsthand the emergence of Mexico as a center of Modern art,” said Gary Tinterow,
director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
“Scholars have long understood Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro
Siqueiros as the driving forces behind muralism and the transformations that swept Mexican
art after the Revolution,” added Mari Carmen Ramírez, the Wortham Curator of Latin
American Art at the MFAH and organizing curator of the Houston presentation. “Paint the
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David Alfaro Siqueiros, The Devil in the Church, 1947
Frida Kahlo
Revolution, however, exposes audiences to the lesser-known
forms of expression – from printmaking to photography –
employed by a broad range of Mexican artists as they reacted
to the social and political changes in Mexico during the first half
of the 20th century.”
Rolando Rojas
ST ILL WANT TO LEARN MORE? Paint the Revolution: Mexican
Modernism, 1910–1950 is accompanied by a fully illustrated
catalogue, available in both English and Spanish editions. The
volume presents a wealth of new research in 14 essays by
Mexican and U.S. scholars about mural and easel painting,
printmaking, photography, film, architecture, diverse artists’
groups and the involvement of the Mexican state in culture
during this period.
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Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Border Line
between Mexico and the United States, 1932, oil on metal
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