the revolutionary fervour of his early years had relaxed,but it continued to inform all his work and it is in this context that his paintings and also those of his sometime companions Jose Clemente Orazco (1883-1949)
and david alfaro siqueiros(1894-1974) should be seen.
Mexico had thrown off spanish colonial rule in 1821 and there followed aturbulent century marked by the loss in 1848 if New Mexico,Texas,California ,Nevada,Utah,Arizona and Parts of Colorado and wyoming to the USA.Twenty years later Napoleon 3 made his disastrous attemp to take over the country years and install the archduke Maximilian as emperor.By 1910,when the Mexican Revolution began,90 per cent of the peasants had been dispossessed of their land and were forced to live under an iniquitous system of debt peonage to their oppressive landlords,not all of whom were Mexicans.A decade of civil war ended in 1920 with the election of Alvaro Obregon as president and the installation of a revolutionary nationalist,rather than a full-scale communist or socialist,regime.
the revolutionary fervour of his early years had relaxed,but it continued to inform all his work and it is in this context that his paintings and also those of his sometime companions Jose Clemente Orazco (1883-1949)and david alfaro siqueiros(1894-1974) should be seen.Mexico had thrown off spanish colonial rule in 1821 and there followed aturbulent century marked by the loss in 1848 if New Mexico,Texas,California ,Nevada,Utah,Arizona and Parts of Colorado and wyoming to the USA.Twenty years later Napoleon 3 made his disastrous attemp to take over the country years and install the archduke Maximilian as emperor.By 1910,when the Mexican Revolution began,90 per cent of the peasants had been dispossessed of their land and were forced to live under an iniquitous system of debt peonage to their oppressive landlords,not all of whom were Mexicans.A decade of civil war ended in 1920 with the election of Alvaro Obregon as president and the installation of a revolutionary nationalist,rather than a full-scale communist or socialist,regime.
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