CONFERENCE | MAY 19 @ 3:00 PM
RUFINO TAMAYO AND MEXICAN MODERNISM: Dr. Anna Indych - Lopez
Known for his captivating use of color, Rufino Tamayo created a unique
form of modernism in Mexico. At the forefront of taking on the
international/national and abstraction/figuration debates that
preoccupied modern Mexican artists during 1920s and 1930s, he promoted a
new type of abstract figuration that privileged personal myths while
also engaging with issues of Mexican cultural identity. He challenged
the monumentality, politicization, and institutionalization of
mainstream Mexican Art of his time, especially Muralism, in which he
also took part, to warn of the limits of nationalism and the necessity
to incorporate internationalism/universalism into diverse aesthetic
programs. Tamayo synthesized the aesthetics of the European vanguards
with Mexican content and form in a dynamic tension. His refusal to be
didactic, yet his insistence on promoting Mexican aesthetics and motifs,
has had a profound legacy on the development of modernism in Mexico,
the United States, and Europe, places he lived and worked throughout his
life.
Dr. Anna Indych – Lopez will discuss Tamayo’s various aesthetic
influences, the contexts in which he worked, and the ways in which he
constructed a new paradigm for Mexican painting.
MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
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