Mexican Modern Painting: The Andrs Blaisten Collection

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Mexican Modern Painting gathers 80 key works by more than 40 Mexican artists of the early twentieth century--a period of immense creativity in the region driven in part by the desire of its artists to forge an aesthetic identity that would define Mexico as a nation-state. The paintings highlighted here from the Andrs Blaisten Collection were assembled over a period of 30 years of meticulous research and passionate commitment and offer the most thorough overview of Mexican modernism to date. Featured artists include Ral Anguiano Emilio Baz Viaud Rosario Cabrera Celia Caldern Ramn Cano Manilla Julio Castellanos Fernando Castillo Jean Charlot Jess Guerrero Galvn Francisco Gutirrez Saturnino Herrn Mara Izquierdo Agustn Lazo Amador Lugo Carlos Mrida Guillermo Meza Jos Clemente Orozco Alfonso X. Pea Feliciano Pea Alfredo Ramos Martnez Fermn Revueltas Fernando Reyes Diego Rivera Manuel Rodrguez Lozano David Alfaro Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo.