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...solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight championship of the French Army. In 1921 he landed in Mexico and went straight to work with the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors which, with Rivera as its gun-toting maestro, was then remaking Mexican art. Of what he found in Mexico he wrote...
Hired to dig and sketch abstract geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated...
Maya. Most Mexicans are of Indian descent; either pure-blooded or mixed (mestizo). As Indians, their artists have never felt adequately fathered by the Old Masters of Europe. Between 1910 and 1920, when Rivera and fellow Mexicans quit trying to paint like third-rate Spaniards, they claimed as a vital part of their tradition the Maya Indian culture which flourished before the Spanish conquest. But if Maya sculpture and design became art to modern Mexicans, they remained archeology to most of the rest of the world. Last week the first big U.S. exhibition of Maya relics as objects...
From Diego Rivera came five new paintings which showed the recent change in the artist's style. Because most Government walls have already been painted and also because the Cardenas Government no longer thinks it needs Painter Rivera's ardent brush, he has concentrated on quiet easel paintings and water colors, more closely observed and felt than his oldtime posterish designs...
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...