A visit to the Franz Meyer museum is always worthwhile when visiting Mexico City so one day I took Harry there to see what was on offer. Franz Meyer was a stockbroker and financial professional and the museum was created to contain his collection of decorative arts, the largest in Latin America. The museum was created in the former San Juan de Dios monastery and hospital, an 18th-century structure which was rehabilitated for the museum. This year, one of the featured exhibits was of ceramics created by a variety of Mexican ceramicists.
I also revisited the Museum of Modern Art with Harry, saw another ceramics exhibit that I'd missed on my last visit, pieces by Francisco Toledo, an artist from Oaxaco. His work of distinguished by his technique of using extremely high heats to fire his works.
While I was there I photographed some of the classics.
David Siqueiros - Birth of Facism
David Sequeiros - Aeronave atómica, Atomic Airship
David Sequeiros
Leopoldo Méndez - Peor Subrevivir, The Poor Survivor
Leopoldo Méndez - Deportation of the Women
Jose Guadalupe Posada - Posada's best known works are his calaveras, which often assume various costumes, such as the Calavera de la Catrina, the "Skull of the Female Dandy", which was meant to satirize the life of the upper classes during the reign of Porfirio Diaz. Most of his imagery was meant to make a religious or satirical point. Since his death, however, his images have become associated with the Mexican holidayDía de los Muertos, the "Day of the Dead".
Rufino Tamayo
Two Fridas
Harry's primary motive for visiting Mexico City was to do some volunteer English teaching at a little school run by a Mexican couple that he'd connected with in Victoria. I accompanied him a few times and got my feet wet participating in the teaching in a limited way. My first experience at this. I found it enjoyable though the school was pretty disorganized. We never knew who would show up for the classes and they sometimes were a wide range of ages and abilities.
On the way to the Museum of Modern Art we came across the designated roller blade hang out.
David Siqueiros - Birth of Facism
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