José Luis Cuevas (b. 1933)
One of Mexico's foremost printmakers, Cuevas stands apart. His imagery is more in tune with the literary traditions of the Spanish language--without being illustration--than obedient to the reco...
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Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991)
An artist who needs no introduction. Tamayo shares the limelight together with Diego Rivera as Mexico's greatest painters of the twentieth century. But Tamayo, like Rivera, was also a prolific and de...
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Leonora Carrington (b. England, 1917)
The legendary English born surrealist painter is internationally recognized for her unique imagery. However, this nonagenarian has yet to be recognized for her profound influence on the younger generat...
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Raul Anguiano (1915-2005)
Photo by Bob Schalkwijk
His visual roots firmly planted in the graphic essence that marked the early part of this century, Anguiano's traditional figurative imagery has grown to embrace vivid colo...
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Alfredo Castañeda (b. 1938)
Castañeda is renowned for his "inspirationalist" allegories that feature his own bearded "alter ego". He renders his images with "Old Master" pictorial quality. An optimistic spirituality radi...
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Alejandro Colunga (b. 1948)
This trickster - satirist from Guadalajara often begins with classical Mexican forms, themes and motifs, and then corrupts them, so to speak, by bombarding them with foreign elements. Colunga re...
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Francisco Corzas (1936 - 1983)
Corzas' imagery is of literary origin. Erudition rendered through virtuoso inarticulation. Cynosure yet restless, his imagery casts a benumbing yet a clarifying effect upon our perception. Ever-present...
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Maximino Javier (b. 1950)
A veteran of the "Oaxacan School" that is rapidly receiving worldwide recognition, Javier has developed his own personal and unmistakable iconography. Movement is a principle and continuous force that...
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Minerva López (b. 1934)
Minerva balances multiple fields of geometric designs, rectangular spirals, parallel zigzags and represents indoor-outdoor dwellings on her primary design field. Within these major areas Minerva...
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Mario Martín del Campo (b. 1945)
Another Tapatío artist (from Guadalajara), Martín del Campo is a major exponent of Magic Realism. A prolific and versatile artist whose media span the gamut from painting to silver casting, Ma...
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Lucía Maya (b. USA, 1953)
Lucía Maya is Mexico's graphic artist par excellence. The pencil is her prime creative tool. Limiting herself only to the lithographic grease pencil, this Tapatía artist syncopates the sweeping ran...
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Armando Morales (b. 1927)
The internationally renown Nicaraguan-born painter is a world master whose work continuously grows. His intricate technical achievements have led to worlds of imagery never before trespassed. Morales delved into the secrets of the lithographic stone with no less audacity, determination and understanding than he puts into oil painting.
read moreRodolfo Nieto (1936–1985)
Photo by Andrew Vlady
One of the pioneer artists, a precursor to the phenomenal explosion of creativity from Oaxaca. Living and working for many years in Paris, Nieto's works stand as a testimony t...
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Alfredo Sosabravo (b. 1930)
The 1998 recipient of Cuba's National Award for the Fine Arts, Sosabravo is the Godfather of the graphic satire that far outreaches contemporary Cuban art; his influence is firmly set in the Isle of the Manhattos via the subsequent generations of Cuban as well as Puerto Rican and Dominican artists.
read moreFrancisco Toledo (b. 1940)
Considered overwhelmingly to be Mexico's greatest living artist, Toledo is primarily a printmaker. Of all the works in this exposition, Toledo's are the most difficult to classify. Each image he unde...
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Remigio Valdés de Hoyas (b. 1950)
A restless innovator, his penetration of lithographic and coloristic possibilities are at once the means and allegory for his bold and unabashed explorations into the lights and shadows of human nature...
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Francisco Zúñiga (1913–1998)
The Master.
Francisco Zúñiga died on August 9, 1998; one week after the Kyron exhibition was inaugurated on the Internet. In his memory Andrew Vlady would like to include the final paragraph from ...
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Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part One
The authenticity of Huichol art on the market today becomes of some importance when called into question by no less an authority on the Indians of Mexico than the famous Mexican historian and anthropologist Fernando Benítez, who once described the popular Huichol yarn paintings as "...a falsification and an industry."
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Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part Three
Huichol art is even more prolific today than it was during the years 1890 to 1898 when Carl Lumholtz, the Norwegian explorer and ethnographer, first visited the Huichol and recorded their symbolic and decorative art in such remarkable detail that we are able to make direct comparisons between Huichol art then and now. The major difference is that today Huichol artisans have a much greater variety of imported and commercial materials with which to work, but many traditional designs and functions have been preserved to the present day.
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Mexico's comparative arts through the ages
The following comparative time line provides an orientation to the roots, elements and development of the rich artistic heritage of Mexico.
The time line presentation allows for a sense of movement a...
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Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part Four
Huichol art has come a long way since Carl Lumholtz first recorded it in the late 19th century It is moving from a strictly religious function to a commercialized folk art. Some items of Huichol art are definitely non-traditional, such as beaded eggs intended for Christmas decorations; others, such as masks of the sun and moon, are borderline traditional. Beaded Jaguar heads are an important symbol in Mesoamerican religion and by no means confined to the Huichol. The bead and yarn paintings are becoming more and more complex, with some risk of becoming more decorative than symbolic or religious.
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The lurid artistry of the Mexican lobby card
According to collecting experts, Mexican lobby cards of U.S. films are rarer than U.S. lobby cards of the same since fewer of them were printed. They wallow in exploitation, indulging in as much sex and violence as their respective eras legally allowed. Vampires are vampires. Aliens are aliens. Babes are babes. Criminals are criminals. Abominable Snowmen are Abominable Snowmen. Krakatoa is still East of Java (even though it's west) and will remain that way for all eternity.
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Music, food fest, film and art visit Mazamitla
From July 16-18, Mazamitla hosts three days of music, art, gastronomy, film and more.
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A quest for hidden treasure in Chihuahua
You might say that it all began on an ordinary day in New York - the treasure hunt, that is. My 23 year old daughter Elise was just back from Spain where she had been teaching English to grade school s...
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Graffiti: the Estadio Azteca and Mexico City's new wave muralists
Increasingly here in Mexico's capital, the graffiti mural is coming to represent what some local experts feel is a new movement in mural art in the great tradition of early 20th century Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros. Mexico City's largest sports stadium has allowed graffiti murals to adorn its many outer walls, entrance gates and car park enclosures.
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