Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen. U. S. citizens got their first comprehensive look at Mexican art in a traveling show sent by the American Federation of Arts seven years ago. Last week another comprehensive, more up-to-date traveling show on its first stop in Chicago gave Midwestern art followers an idea of where Mexican artists are going. New work by Orozco was not included because that powerful artist is busy on a mural in Guadalajara. Consensus among the discerning was that without him the flame of revolutionary art below the Rio Grande looked somewhat pale...
Arranged for Chicago's Arts Club by pert, attractive Mrs. Robert S. Pirie when she and Mr. Pirie, whose father is president of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., drove their trailer to Mexico City last year, the show numbered 54 paintings, 36 of them new, by 14 first-string Mexican artists...
From David Alfaro Siqueiros, companion of Rivera in the days of the syndicate, now a lieutenant colonel with the Loyalist army in Spain, one portrait painting was shown. It contained little of the rocketing imagination with which this painter once lit the Mexican Renaissance...
...Afternoon Light, by 29-year-old Federico Cantu, Chicagoans could study a mixture of El Greco and Picasso monumentality as evidence of one of the influences which are at work to internationalize Mexican...
...this year, Mexico ranks as the world's seventh largest oil-producing nation.* Oil is Mexico's fourth-largest industry but it is almost entirely controlled by foreign firms, which currently have a $450,000,000 investment in it. This has long rankled nationalistic Mexicans, who not only covet the foreign-held oil fields but see justification in Mexico's taking them, since a Mexican legal principle from the time when the country was a Spanish colony until 1857 held that the Government owned all subsoil rights. From 1884 until 1917, however, Mexican law gave the surface...