FRI, Jan 8, 2021, 12 pm, Online, via Zoom
The Mexican avant-garde that emerged after the Revolution inspired American artists to break free from the European aesthetic domination that had hitherto defined their art. Many of these American artists traveled to Mexico, while the most renowned Mexican muralists — José Clemente Orozco , Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros — spent long stays in the United States. While there, they created murals, paintings and prints, exhibited their work, and worked with local artists. The talk will explore the trajectories of influence that these three artists, known as the Big Three, had in the United States.
Sofía Silva is a Latinx Art Fellow in the Whitney Curation and Education departments. He specializes in contemporary Latin American and Latinx art and has an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
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