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I agree those years were extraordinary.
The muralists painterly montage compositions reimagined the social order in high-keyed color with in-your-face wall power.
How were they written out?
(The long American night is always a factor in art history.)
Next, World War II and its Cold War aftermath made their art forbidden for its communist sympathies.
Instead, this art insists that good subject matter requires original form.
See huge crowds marvel at and decipher the work at the Whitney.
The show revolves around los tres grandes, the three greats: Rivera, Siqueiros, and Orozco.
His are among the most physically original and innovative paintings of the 20th century.
Art was blood sport for Siqueiros.
He and his cohorts meant business.
(She called him evil fat toad.)
(He studied in Paris, and before he broke ranks, was a great Modernist.)
American artists flocked to Mexico to see other efforts by these artists.
Critics wrote that they had brought painting back to its vital function in society.
Soon the Mexican artists were being commissioned to create monumental frescoes all over the U.S.
It was Twitter cancel culture almost a century before the fact.
