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...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 heroic Cuauhtemoc in his death throes. Last week the U.S. got a good look at the work of a new Mexican artist, Jose Luis Cuevas, who sometimes plays truant from the embalmer's school of Mexican...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...
Francisco Goitia lives as a recluse in the Indian village of Xochimilco on the edge of a floating garden. In his youth he went to Europe but returned like the others to build up a Mexican art tradition. During the Revolution he was staff-artist for General Angeles, antagonist of Villa. Like all Mexican artists he is concerned with suffering, has dedicated his art to the martyrdom of the Revolution. Like Michelangelo, Painter Goitia studied anatomy in dissecting rooms "to see about a flagellated back." Once he poured a pail of animal's blood over his model's back...
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