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FOOD | ARTS | COMMUNITY | STYLE+LEISURE
José Clemente Orozco
VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!
BLOCKBUSTER SHOW IS THE BIGGEST SURVEY OF MEXICAN ART IN 70 YEARS
By Tim Moloney | Photography courtesy of MFAH
IT WOULDN’T BE THE LOCAL HOUSTON ART ISSUE WITHOUT THIS REMARKABLE
SHOW. PAINT THE REVOLUTION: MEXICAN MODERNISM, 1910–1950, IS THIS
SUMMER’S MUST-SEE EXHIBITION, CHARTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ART
IN MEXICO AND THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL FORCES THAT SHAPED IT
OVER THE COURSE OF NEARLY HALF A CENTURY.
Our own Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the final venue for this comprehensive survey, which was originally organized by
the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. The exhibition will be on view at
the MFA,H from June 25 to October 1, 2017.
And what a view it is: more than 175 works – including easel paintings, large-scale portable murals and mural fragments,
prints, photographs, books, newspapers and broadsheets – Paint the Revolution is unprecedented for its breadth and the
variety of visual materials on display.
Juan O’Gorman
12.27.2016
11:25am
José Clemente Orozco, Barricade, 1931, oil on canvas
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Juan O’Gorman, Mexico City, 1949, tempera on Masonite
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