Mexican artists

Mark your 2021 calendars for art exhibitions and events coming up around the West. Through January 3, 2021 Los Tres Grandes: Obras de Rivera, Siqueiros y Orozco Sleep by Diego Rivera, 1932. Lithograph Rear Guard, José Clemente Orozco, 1929. Lithograph Portrait of William Spratling, David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1939. Lithograph Los Frutos de la Tierra (The Fruits of Labor), Diego Rivera, 1932. Lithograph 1/4 San Antonio’s McNay Museum has one of the strongest print collections of Mexican modernism…

While Mexicos most well-known female artist is undoubtedly the cult icon Frida Kahlo there are many more female up and comers on the Mexican art scene that...

Learn about Mexican artist Diego Rivera with this Mexican tin art project for kids

While Mexicos most well-known female artist is undoubtedly the cult icon Frida Kahlo there are many more female up and comers on the Mexican art scene that...

In the Ranch, Mexico, was composed by the great Alfredo Ramos Martínez. He is considered one of the most important Mexican artists of the modern age. Ramos Martínez captured the spirit of Mexican life with his distinctive aesthetic style. His artistic genius and reverence for Mexican culture have become his legacy ~ M.S. Rau Antiques

“Nepantla,” oil on canvas, 50" x 48", by Santa Barraza expresses the artist’s feelings of in-between-ness as both a Chicana and a Native American. As she puts it, “My artwork is about resistance, de-colonization, self-definition, self empowerment and survival..... I incorporate images such as the Guadalupana, Llorona, Adelita and Malinche as Chicana Mestiza feminine archetypes, warriors of womankind and humanity. The icons then become symbols of the embodiment of the mestizaje, the hybrid.”…

Mexican textile artist Victoria Villasana applies colourful embroidery to pictures of artists, musicians and politicians

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Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón on July 6, 1907 at 8:30am in Coyocoan, Mexico City, Frida Kahlo played soccer, boxed, wrestled, and became a champion swimmer. She's also one of the highest-selling women in art.

The mammoth book, titled Frida Kahlo. The Complete Paintings, houses her notable self-portraiture, diary pages, letters, an illustrated biography and rarely seen photographs.