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The book accompanies a homonymous exhibition commemorating the 50th death anniversary of noted painter and muralist Rivera (b. Mexico 1886-1957) , including a selection of his earliest drawings and paintings, along works by his teachers and peers. The catalog covers his intense formation period, with critic texts that explore Rivera's rigorous education in the Art Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City in 1897, under the academic tutelage of figures such as Santiago Rebull, José María Velasco and Felix Parra and his travels to Europe in 1907 to continue his artistic education. The event includes 2 drawing notebooks created by Rivera during in his teenager years, the first a "libreta de apuntes", kept by the paternal family of the painter and later handed to his daughter Guadalupe Rivera Marin, containing certain iconographic elements later used by the artist in his murals, like the atom and the universe. A second notebook "Libreta de Viajes", from a private collection with sketches and unfinished drawings used later for other works.
Dialectics, understood as a conversation technique or debating concept is the main topic of the exhibition "Dialectics of the Urban Landscape" that presents the artistic creations of José María Velasco, Pedro Gauldi, Casimiro Castro, Diego Rivera, Juan O'Gorman, Rufino Tamayo, José Clemente Orozco, Marx Ernst, Pablo O' Higgins, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, José Castro Leñero, Betsabeé Romero, Helen Escobedo, Gabriel Orozco, amongst other artists who used the city of Mexico as a main source of inspiration. The exhibition included 76 works created in diverse time periods and formats (paintings, sculptures, graphic art, installations and video art) that have artistically portrayed the city during the last 5 centuries of its history, from the 16th to the 21st century.
Exhibition of the mural and the art surrounding Diego Rivera's famous mural " Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central". Completed in 1947, the mural depicts scenes and people from the Spanish Conquest to the middle of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on the documentary collection of the great collector Ricardo Pérez Escamilla. The exhibition unites in order the documents and original publications that have iconographic roots in the mural. Other works of the epoch have been included to show different imagery or graphics of the images present in the mural as a complement to the exhibition. Curated with texts by Ricardo Pérez Escamilla.
This booklet publicizes the exhibit "Diego River : Epopeya Mural" held at the Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City which began September 28, 2007 and continued for two and a half months. This exhibit was part of a Mexican national tribute to Diego Rivera which commemorated the 50th anniversary of his death. This exhibit included 165 pieces of which one, the mural entitled "Glorious Victory", owned by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, had not been on view for over fifty years until this exhibit. "Glorious Victory" makes a political statement regarding the involvement of the United States in Guatemala during the early 1950s.
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