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...anarchism in Barcelona cafés, argued with Lenin in Lausanne, published an anticlerical newspaper with a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. When the fire of Mexico's revolution was lit in 1911, Dr. Atl returned home to kindle his country's intellectuals. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros caught the blaze from him. Dr. Atl became Mexico's Fine Arts Minister, promptly shut down the Fine Arts Academy as too traditional. The plutonic painter, more than anyone, pointed Mexican art toward its folklore, its social fervor and its peppery expressionism...
MEXICO. The handsome pavilion is designed so that most of it can be viewed from couches and comfy basket chairs. From the ceiling sombreroed skeletons dangle drolly; paintings by Tamayo, Rivera, Velasco and Siqueiros are upstaged by a superb Orozco hung on the same wall a floor above the others. And outside the pavilion, the "Flying Eagles of Papantla" scale a 114-ft. pole four times a day and float back down to earth...
...pedagogical platform. The bulk of the collection dates from before 1900. There are quaint, good things, such as Sir Edward Burne-Jones's eight pre-Raphaelite panels of the Perseus legend. There are great artists with bad works: a Degas copy of a Poussin, and a grotesquely tortured Orozco Slave...
...color and texture from the land, when, he worked as a surveyor's helper; in any case, he learned drawing from anatomy up. He borrowed Benton's feel for the swirly sensuousness of oils, turned to the writhing images of the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco, loved the sinuous drapery of baroque art. But his greatest influence came from childhood days in the Southwest: sand painting by the Navahos, who sifted colored earths through their fingers to form flat talismans on the ground...
Copies of Copies of Copies. If the group has a Mexican ancestor, it is José Clemente Orozco, but its father is José Luis Cuevas, 29, who has been taking shots at the Mexican art establishment for years. In 1954 he accused the Bellas Artes of selecting for its annual shows nothing but "copies of copies of copies of the so-called Mexican school." In 1956, while on a visit to Venezuela, he was asked why he so cruelly kept attacking the aging (and currently jailed) Communist firebrand David Siqueiros, and he bluntly replied: "For the same reason that...