Transcript PRINT AS PROTEST Leopoldo Mendez I’m Thristy, 1948, Linocut, 12” x 16 1/4”

PRINT AS PROTEST
Leopoldo Mendez I’m Thristy, 1948, Linocut, 12” x 16 1/4”
JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA
February 2, 1852 –
January 20, 1913
La Calavera Catrina, 1913
Calavera de los Periodicos/Ciclistas, c. 1900-1910
metal engraving (restrike), 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas OAS
Gran calavera eléctrica
Calavera of Don Quixote
“Jarabe en Ultratumba/Dance of the Dead” woodcut
Calavera
Huertista
zinc engraving,
1910
Zapata
La calavera Oaxaqueña
1 print on colored paper: lithograph with
letterpress; 43 x 30 cm.
Print shows a male skeleton
dressed in a charro outfit
wielding a machete among
skulls and skeletons. Includes
song lyrics and cartoon
skeleton figures.
Rebumbio de calaveras - skeletons in a hubbub
Calavera of Don Quixote
Calavera Oaxaqueña (Calavera from Oaxaca)
Corrido of the Four Zapata Followers Executed by Firing Squad
1910-12, engraving
Amazing Miracle, 1893 engraving
Sensational Event!...Parricide...and Moral Lesson...in Saltillo..
Firing Squad: The Coup de Grace, engraving
EL TALLER DE GRAFICA POPULAR
Translation of text seen on all fliers:
The graphic artists of Mexico, convinced that
artistic creation is only possible in a world at
peace and a world of friendship among peoples,
salute all the delegates gathered at this first Latin
American Conference, which represents the
hopes of the sister communities of this continent
and of the world. For national sovereignty,
economic emancipation, and peace.
~ Taller de Gráfica Popular, A.C.
Sarah Jimenez, Mexico, born 1925
Industrialización del Campo [Industrialization of the Fields],
ca. 1961, Wood engraving
In two of the fliers we see President Lázaro
Cárdenas del Río (1895-1970), who helped
realize the social and political goals of the
Mexican Revolution:
• the distribution of land
• aid to the peasants
• the nationalization of foreign-owned
industrial interests in Mexico (such as the oil
industry)
Another flier recalls the 1914 occupation of the
port of Veracruz by U.S. forces.
Jesus Alvarez Amaya, Mexico, born 1925,
Cárdenas y la Expropación petrola [Cárdenas and the
Expropriation of Petroleum], ca. 1961 Wood engraving
Adolfo Quinteros, Mexico, born 1928
Cárdenas por la Paz [Cárdenas for Peace], ca. 1961
Wood engraving
Luis Arenal, Angel Bracho, Fernando Gamboa, Leopoldo Mendez, Pablo
O’Higgins, & Antonio Pujol
Anti-Imprerialist Scythe of the People, 1936, blockprint
Angel Bracho
Victory!
1945
Lithograph
18 15/16” x 16 7/8”
Printed in celebration of the
Allied victory during World War II
It is typical of TGP posters
because it is printed in
eye-catching red and black and it
Is ardently anti-fascist
Arturo Garcia Bustos
and Mariana Yampolsky
We Win Peace by Uniting
For It
Collaboration of the
Workshop for Popular Graphic
Art in Mexico City (American
Continental Congress for
Peace, Sept. 5-10, 1949)
1949
Linocut
17 1/8” x 16 1/2”
Beltrán, Alberto
Vida y drama de México:
20 años de vida del Taller de
Gráfica Popular.
Top left-Zalce
Eight-hour work
Day
Center leftAguirre
Seven Days Pay
For Six Days
Work
Bottom left
Aguirre
Annual Vacation
Bottom center
Zalce
Study Center
Bottom right
Ramirez
Health Care
Ignacio Aguirre, Everado Ramirez and Alfredo Zalce, Union of
Graphic Arts Workers of the Commercial Workshops, 1940-2
Francisco Dosamantes
The Cart
(The Joaquin
Clausell Painting Studio Pays
Homage to the
“Estampas de la revolucion
Mexicana,” presenting an
Exhibition of 34 Prints”)
1944
Linocut and metal type
37 3/8” x 24 3/16”
Beltrán, Alberto
La leyenda de milagro de la
virgen Generala
1952
Linoleum cut
LEOPOLDO MENDEZ
(1902 - 1969)
Posada in his Workshop, Homage to Posada, 1953, Linocut
14” x 25 1/2”
One of seven original
lithographs, from his folio
En Nombre de Cristo,
which was a tribute to
more than 200 rural
schoolteachers killed by
Christian fascists
because they were
teaching the people to
read and supporting
government land reform
in Mexico,1938.
Mexico 1939
13.75" x 9.5" paper
Proletarian Hand
La Mano del pueblo
1932
Wood engraving
10 5/16”x 6 1/8”
Calaveras’ Symphony
Concert
1934
Wood engraving
9 7/16” x 6 11/16”
Leon de la Barra,
“The White President”
1911
Linocut
11 7/8” x 7 15/16”
Imperialism and War
1938
Lithograph flyer printed on orange
wove paper
9 5/16” x 6 9/16”
Deportation to Death, 1942, Linocut, 13 13/16” x 20 1/16”
What May Happen
(Self-Portrait)
1945
Wood engraving
12” x 6 7/8”
Corrido of Stalingrad
1942
Linocut
18 3/4” x 13 1/2”
Top: Leopoldo Mendez
with Alfredo Zalce
Strangling Calaveras
1942
Two Linocuts
18 3/4” x 13 1/2”
Bottom:
The Serial Killer by Gregorio
Cardenas Hernandez
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS
1896 - 1974
Zapata
1931
Lithograph
20 7/8” x 15 11/16”
Aristocrat
1930
woodcut block
3 1/2” x 5 1/16”
One of a set of 13 woodcuts
representing prison life
Used wood from packing
crates to create these
simplified woodcuts
Printed on lightweight colored
papers like Posada
The Deportees, 1930 woodcut block 3 7/16” x 5 1/8”
The Unjust, 1930 woodcut block 3 9/16” x 5 1/16”
One Consequence, 1930 woodcut block 3 7/16” x 5 1/8”
The Family
1930
woodcut block
9 7/8” x 3 3/8”
One Recourse,
Prostitution
1930
woodcut block
3 5/8” x 5 1/16”
The Slave
1930
woodcut block
3 7/16” x 5”
The Wedding, 1930 woodcut block 3 1/2” x 5 1/8”
The Lockout, 1930 woodcut block 3 1/2” x 5 1/16”
The Wives of the Deportees, 1930 Woodcut block 3 1/2” x 5 1/16”
At The Pawnbrokers
1930
woodcut block
3 7/16” x 5 1/8”
The Prisoner’s Lunch
1930
woodcut block
3 7/16” x 5 1/8”
Isidoro Ocampo
20 June 1910, Veracruz —
4 February 1983, Mexico City
Jesus Escobedo, All for One, 1939, lithograph, 12 1/4” x 17 1/2”
Jesus Escobedo, How to Combat Fascism, 1939 Lithograph
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO
(1883-1949)
Inditos, 1929, Lithograph 12 3/4” x 17 1/2”
The Franciscan
1929
Lithograph
12” x 9 15/16”
The Masses, 1935, Lithograph, 13 5/16” x 16 7/8”
Parade, 1935 Lithograph 13 3/16”x 17 3/8”
Generals, 1935, Lithograph 13”x 16 1/2”
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