More Mexican Art

Here are more of the paintings by Mexican artists that are on display at the "Foro Valparaiso" in the historic center of Mexico City...

Cosmopolitan and vanguardist art from 1900 to 1930

"Still Life with Bananas"

by Rufino Tamayo

1928

"Seascape"

by Joaquín Clausell

no date

"Landscape with a House"

by Manuel Rodríguez Lozano

1928

"Calvary of Oaxaca"

by Rufino Tamayo

1921

"Substation"

by Fermín Revueltas 

1921

In search of a national identity 1930 - 1960

"Tehuana"

by Roberto Montenegro

1950

(A "Tehuana" is a woman from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.)

"Woman in the Market"

by Diego Rivera

1941

"Mountain Pass"

by Carlos Orozco Romero

no date

"Rays of the Sun"

by Geraldo Murillo

no date

(Murillo, a landscape painter famous for his scenes of volcanoes, is better known by his pseudonym of "Dr. Atl".)

"Ravines and Rocks"

by Luis Nishizawa

1950

(As his last name suggests Nishizawa was a Mexican of Japanese ancestry.)

"Landscape with Flowers"

by Jorge González Camarena

1950

"Ivory Towers"

by Juan O'Gorman

1945

(O'Gorman was a Mexican of Irish descent.)

"The White Sheet"

by Jesús Guerrero Galván

1940

Experimental art 1960 - 1982

"Len Tch'e at the Escorial"

by José Alberto Gironella

1967

"History of the Future"

by Julio Prieto

1975

"Toltec"

by José Chávez Morado

1961

"The Puddle"

by Olga Costa

1980

These are just a few of the paintings in this very extensive exhibition.