Modernism Final Flashcards
Lasar Segall
Favela
1930
Brazilian vanguard/ Social Realism
- painted after the revolution in Brazil and imposition of Vargas who takes over; a difficult time due to economic depression, Vargas turned into a conservative dictator
Rufino Tamayo
Still-Life
1928
Mexico
Contemporaneo
María Izquierdo
La Dolorosa (Virgin of Sorrows)
1947
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Camilo Egas
Ecuadorian Festival
New School for Social Research (NYC)
1932
Ecuador
Indigenismo
o Michele Grete has written on it
o Corpus Christi costumes, visualization of the amalgam and the clash between religious traditions of natives and aggressors, and the syncretic combination of them—this account for the uneasy tension represented in the darkness
o Figural distortion of figures
o Empty spaces emphasize marginalization, peripheralitiy
o IN 20th century Indian groups would use the festival to occupy the plaza of the town, hurl rocks and objects—it’s a subversive action on the part of the locals
Rufino Tamayo
Illustration from
Best Method
1923
Mexico
Best Method
María Izquierdo
Altar for the Dead
1943
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Origenes, 1945/ 1953
Cuban vanguard (2nd gen.)/ Magical Realism
Rufino Tamayo
Glorification of Zapata
1935
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Antonio Berni
Self-Portrait with Cactus
1934
Argentina
Social Realism
- Berni associated with Grupo de Paris, many want to link AG forms with social concerns
Cândido Portinari
Mestizo
1934
Brazilian vanguard/ Social Realism
- deals with national ethos/ identity
- heroic indigenous figure pushed up to picture plane, Renaissance type portrait composition, his place of labor in the background
Amelia Peláez
Two Sisters Reading
1944
Cuban vanguard (2nd gen.)/ Magical Realism
María Izquierdo
The Jewelry Box
1942
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Benito Quinquela Martín
Activity at La Boca
1935
Argentina
Social Realism
Francisco Laso
The Indian Potter
(Inhabitant of the Cordillera)
1855
Peru
Costumbrista
- Natalia Majluf: Relationship between sitter (contemporary indian) and object (Moche, of prisoner) an allegory for the position of the Indian at the time
Rufino Tamayo
Mandolins and Pineapples
1930
Mexico
Contemporaneo
María Izquierdo
Acrobatic Dogs
1939
Mexico
Contemporaneo
María Izquierdo
Bridal Veil
1943
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Eduardo Abela
First Exhibition of New Art
March, 1927
Cuban Vanguard/
Grupo Miniorista
Víctor Manuel
Girl with a Red Apple
c. 1940
- repeats this theme over and over, in a ¾ pose, bust painting, most often clothed, against natural landscape, submissive/ passive figures with melancholic expression, evoke racial mixing
- Gauguin, primitivism
- sexualized female figure standing in for the nation, readily available for our gaze
Lasar Segall
Interior of Poor People II
1921
Brazilian vanguard/
Social Realism
- Issues of marginality came into his own conception and experience of Brazil
- an interior of a typical cramped and squalor space in re-light district neighborhood
- A small-scale etching, influenced by expressionism and experiences in Germany
- Also sets up the idea of him as an “explorer”—play on windows, doors, and accessibility to an underworld, whether allowed or denied, and access to space and bodies of the prostitutes
- Interior/ exterior an overarching theme (clothed/ not clothed; insider/ outsider)
María Izquierdo
Still-life with Camera
1931/2
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Rufino Tamayo
Revolution
1938
Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
Fresco
59 x 59 ft.
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Carlos Enríquez
Our Lady of El Cobre
c. 1933
Cuban vanguard/ Grupo Miniorista
- loosely based on a popular national legend of a discovery of wooden statue in the Bay of Santiago del Cuba, in mining town they built a sanctuary to Virgin in Cobre—becomes national patron Saint of Cuba in 1935
- tied to Yoruban dieties, especially Ochun, one associated with waters and rivers
- Three fisherman in painting are Afro-Cuban, evoking this past of thinking of her alongside the cultures tied to Africa
María Izquierdo
Circus Rider
1932
Mexico
Contemporaneo
María Izquierdo
Good Friday Altar
1943
Mexico
Contemporaneo
José Sabogal
Ccolla Indian
c.1926
Peru
Indigenismo
Rufino Tamayo
Animals
1941
Mexico
Contemporaneo
José Sabogal
José Carlos Mariátegui
1947
Peru
Indigenismo
María Izquierdo
Spring
1943
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Amautu, 1926
Peru
Indigenismo
- where Mariategui’s concept of the Andean vanguard plays out
- Covers of Amauta: images more graphic and geometric
Rufino Tamayo
Dog Barking at the Moon
1942
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Rufino Tamayo
Still-Life with Foot
1928
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Rufino Tamayo
Girl with Mandolin
1941
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Lasar Segall
Ship of Emigrants
1939-41, 7 ½ x 9 feet
Brazilian vanguard/ Social Realism
- When Segall returns in 1932 Fascism starts to take hold in Europe and in Brazilian context—leads to the artist’s ultimate disenfranchisement and his hopeful/ utopian view of Brazil to a desolate, depressing vision of the world, rooted on his own experiences (based on Jewish identity, empathy with Afro-Brazilian—talked about by Edith Gibson)
José Sabogal
India of the Callao, Cuzco
1925
Peru
Indigenismo
Amelia Peláez
The White Tablecloth
1935
Cuban vanguard (2nd gen.)/
Magical Realism
Revista de avance, 1927
Cuban Vanguard/
Grupo Miniorista
Revista de Avance a bi-monthly journal, lasted 4 years (1927-31), circulation around 3,000, among intellectual elite
Rufino Tamayo
Frutero y dominó
1928
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Amelia Peláez
Interior with Columns
1951
Cuban vanguard (2nd gen.)/ Magical Realism
Camilo Egas
Indian Head
1926
Ecuador
Indigenismo
María Izquierdo
Pan de Muertos (Day of the Dead Bread)
1947
Mexico
Contemporaneo
María Izquierdo
Cupboard with Sugar-Covered Candies
1946
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Sketch for mural in staircase at Departamento Central del Distrito Federal
(Mexico City), 1945
Mexico
Contemporaneo
Antonio Berni
Tenant Farmers
1934
tempera on burlap, 6x10 feet
Argentina
Social Realism
- third in series of large-scale
- Shift in work from protest imagery to staid imagery, a collective portrait, agrarian solidarity
Cândido Portinari
Soccer
1935
Brazilian vanguard/ Social Realism
-deals with the migration of rural inhabitants to cities in search of work—an image of a shantytown against images of modernity (ship and boat)
Eduardo Kingman
The Coal Merchant
1934
Ecuador
Indigenismo
- Syndicate of Ecuadorian Writers launches indigenismo movement
Wifredo Lam
Illustrations for
André Breton’s
Fata Morgana
1941
Cuban vanguard (2nd gen.)/ Magical Realism