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One of Mexico's greatest modern painters, old (70) Francisco Goitia, sat beside deathbeds to catch the last gasp of unwilling models. Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan. And David Siqueiros was perhaps at his best when quartering and Duco-painting a...
Young (21) Painter Cuevas strayed only as far as the insane asylum, the charity hospital and the slums. With an economy of fuzzy line, scratched on paper with almost hairless brushes, he powerfully portrayed the hunched reticence of schizophrenia, the hauteur of megalomania, the stares of poverty and disease. His...
Artist Cuevas professes to be untutored and uninfluenced-except for his admiration of Jose Clemente Orozco and Rufino Tamayo. He dismisses the other Mexican masters, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, with a shrug: "They died several years ago, and what is left are the politics and the public relations."
The son of a Mexico City airline pilot, Cuevas discovered his genre at ten, when he found a dead rabbit, gutted it and sketched its entrails. He tried oils at 13 but soon abandoned them for ink and watercolors, roamed the streets in dungarees, sketching the poor and infirm. An...
Cuevas' show was a sellout at $20 to $50 a sketch. One Manhattan dealer sold several, sight unseen, by long-distance telephone. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art took one look at the show's catalogue and reserved two of the most impressive asylum studies.