DF 2020 - Museum of Modern Art

A short ride from my place, the Museum of Modern Art in Chapultepec Park is a regular stop on my visits to DF.  This year featured an exhibit of CoBrA which was an artist group formed in 1948 by artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam whose painting style was highly expressionist and inspired by the art of children.  It did not spark an interest in me hence the lack of photos.  Another exhibit was Phychoanalysis and Identity in Mexican Art interpreted by Teresa del Conde, an art critic and art historian.  Works by many major Mexican artists were grouped by mental states of mind e.g. libido, depression, etc.  Her interpretation aside, I enjoyed seeing the works of many of my favourites. 

David Alfaro Siqueiros a so called social realist painter.  He was a muralist and contemporary of Diego Rivera and, like Rivera, a member of the Mexican Communist Party

 

 

 

 Gerardo Murillo known as Dr. Atl, another of the leftist artist crowd.

Diego Rivera's cubist period

The most famous of Oaxacan artists, Rufino Tamayo.  He did not share his contemporaries political views and felt that revolution would be detrimental.

Francisco Goitia, from Zacatecas, was a revolutionary and followed Poncho Villa's army chronicling the revolutionary violence.

Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s.

 

 A couple of other Mexican artists unknown to me.

The Mexican Communist Party was founded by Manabendra Nath Roy, a left wing Indian Bengali (strangely enough) and enjoyed some success in the early 20th century.  Many of the most famous artists of the time were members.  

 These are part of the rotating photography exhibition mounted on the outside fence of Chapultepec Park on Reforma.  Another wonderful attraction of the city.

There was another exhibition of Cuban design, the most interesting part of which, at least for me, was a documentary of the National Schools of Art in Havana, a project founded in 1961 by Castro and Guevara but only recently completed.  It's a marvelous architectural construction housing schools of dance, theatre, plastic arts, drama and music.  I wish I'd known about it when I was there.  Check it out:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Art_Schools_(Cuba)