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...throng. What 6,500 art-lovers had come to see was the first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of the work of a 31-years-dead Mexican who has been called the greatest popular artist North America has ever produced. Few in the U.S. have ever heard of José Guadalupe Posada, "printmaker to the Mexican people." But in Mexico he has long been hailed as a prophet of revolution, ranked with Spain's Goya, France's Daumier...
...just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting monstrosities, dire prophecies of the end of the world, dances of death, images of delirium. For in the main José Posada addressed an illiterate people who could best be reached with the imagery of sensational violence...
News for the Masses. Folk-artist Posada in fact practiced a kind of picture journalism. He worked most of his life as a salaried employe of a publishing house in Mexico City. His zinc engravings were printed on cheap colored paper sheets, sold throughout the Mexican countryside. Posada-illustrated broadsides, some with printed ballads (corridos), were often vended by street singers, mainly to peons who could not read. They described news events such as: "Sensational happening! Frightful murder and true example in Saltillo, the first day of the past month (Gentlemen, the criminal has already been shot...
...election the President needed a "strong" Premier. He spent the week trying to find one, called in successively a wealthy young jurist, Felipe Sanchez Roman; crafty former Finance Minister Jose Manuel Pedregal; Dr. Gregorio Maranon, onetime physician to Alfonso XIII and a great advocate of birth control; Dean Posada of the Madrid Law School and finally-when all these had found the Premier's seat too hot- chose an old guard, conservative political boss, Don Diego Martinez Barrios...