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...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 the hold of the Big Three, Dr. Carillo still keeps Orozco at the top of his list as "the finest of all Mexican contemporary artists, the best in our hemisphere-surely...
...Second prize ($1,000) went to Mexico's Rufino Tamayo, 55, who two years ago tied with Manessier for top painting honors at São Paulo. Tamayo's prizewinning painting this year: his deep-hued, superbly painted Fruit Vendors (TIME ART COLOR PAGE, Jan. 24), in which Tamayo transformed a Mexican market scene into a fused balance of realism and evocative symbolism...
...work of such artists as Manessier and Tamayo may be early beacons marking the channel into which an enriched modern art will flow. Better than most of their contemporaries they are beginning to resolve the problem the modern artist has set for himself: creating a visual image that not only squares with his inner vision, but also can be projected as a meaningful experience to his public...
...Carnation' or the k out of 'Milk.' ") On the proceeds of the sale of five local-color paintings he went off to Mexico, fell in love with the work of Orozco, Rivera and Tamayo ("There was no talk of what could sell...
...Tamayo, a Zapotec Indian, likes to repeat: "My feeling is Mexican, my color is Mexican, my shapes are Mexican." Then he adds, "But my thinking is a mixture." His thoughts about art are cosmopolitan and drawn more from the school of Paris than from the militantly proletarian school of his countrymen Rivera and Siqueiros. At 54 Tamayo has come a long way from the Mexico City fruit markets where he grew up, has become one of the Western Hemisphere's most sought-after painters. Contrasted with Chardin's chill but solid mastery, Tamayo's Fruit Vendors looks...