Mexican Modern Art 1910 - 1950 (12)


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Source: WTL photograph© at the Special Exhibition of "Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910 - 1950," at the Philadelphia Art Museum, December 13, 2016.
Image: "The White House" by José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), 1925-28. Oil on canvas.
Comment: See the comments to Mexican Modern Art #11.
For other paintings by Orozco, see: => #11; => #13; and => #14.
Humanities Question: Comment on Orozco's limited palette to depict this dramatic scene of two peasant women and their actions, presumably, during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and the Mexican civil wars during the following decade.


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