My trip to the National Museum of Art last week was to see a special exhibit that I somehow missed the last time that I was there. The show presents portrayals of the indigenous women of Mexico in paintings, sculptures and photographs. The images presented are sometimes romanticized, and sometimes perpetuate stereotypes, but nevertheless is an interesting exhibit. The works span the centuries from the colonial era to the 20th century.
"Malinche"
by Manuel Vilar
1852
Malinche was the native woman who served as the translator for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. She was also his mistress and bore him a son.
"Indigenous Family"
by José de Ibarra
1725
"Indian and Spaniard Produce Mestizo"
circa 1720
This is one of the infamous "caste" paintings which catalogued the different racial mixtures of colonial Mexico.
"The Earth"
by María Izquierdo
1945
"The Flower of the Lake"
by Manuel Ocaranza
1871
"Interior of a Shack"
by Edouard Pingret
1853
"Jarabe Tapatío"
by María Rincón Gallardo
circa 1880
The "jarabe tapatío" is the dance which we refer to as the Mexican Hat Dance.
"Indigenous Woman with Baskets"
by Alfredo Ramos Martínez
undated
"The Wake"
by José María Jara
1889
"Woman with Pineapple"
by Ceferino Colinas
1950
"Day of the Dead"
by Rosa Rolando
circa 1945 -1950
"Women Harvesting"
by Ramón Alva de la Canal
1928
"Prenatal"
by Gabriel Fernández Ledesma
1945
"Monument to the Mother"
by Luis Ortiz Monasterio
1949
"Child Mother"
by David Alfaro Siqueiros
1956
More from this exhibit in the next post.
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