Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Together, California's Imperial and Coachella Valleys form one of the wonders of the New World. Stretching from the Mexican border to the outskirts of Los Angeles, the area is a lush, natural hothouse, larger than the state of Delaware and yielding as many as three crops a year ("You plant the seeds," a local saying goes, "and jump out of the way"). Within 50 years the valleys have been changed from sun-cracked desert (summer temperatures range from 100° F. to 120° F.) into one of the biggest irrigated regions on earth...
...last week applied for a visa to go to Mexico where, according to his Mexican friend Lawyer Hector Ponce Sanchez, he was considering investing "part of his savings" in a Chihuahua cattle ranch...
...better position to judge that than Mexico's No. 1 art collector, millionaire Drug Manufacturer Dr. Alvaro Carillo Gil, who for more than 20 years befriended all three painters, today owns 500 modern Mexican works worth $2,000,-000. Says Collector Carillo: "In Mexico we seem to have reached our last artistic peak in the late '403." For him both Siqueiros and Rivera in recent years have become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge...
...Franciscan friar as the symbol of brotherly compassion. These views, plus his hatred of war and distrust of political panaceas, often brought his art into open conflict with the rhetoric of Rivera and the angry manifesto images of Siqueiros. But they expressed the age-old cry of the Mexican people, and as such stand a chance of echoing in men's minds as long as poverty and injustice exist...
...virtue. A group of down-at-heel U.S. artists wasting their time and money in Guadalajara manage to be both bored and boring as they dabble with drink, dope, adultery and murder. Best feature: the exotic setting of purple trees and pink adobe walls, as vividly colorful as a Mexican travel poster. But the characters are two-dimensional poster figures...