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Independence and its Heroes
Independence…remained by far the most important moment for the new nations that emerged; representations of itsheroes and martyrs have become talismans or iconssignifying those beliefs, and reinterpreted with reverence, orwith irony, by artists in the twentieth century for whom nationalor Latin American identity in cultural and political terms remains an unresolved and therefore potent issue.
(Dawn Ades p.7)
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Spanish and Portuguese America, 1784
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Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmnZtanvjLI&feature=related
Jacob Lawrence (US. 1917-2000) General Toussaint L'Overture, 1986, silkscreen on 2-ply rag paper, 28 3/8 x 18 1/2 inches
Haitian bank note
Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)
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The Americas in 1810
United States’ 1776 war of independence resonated throughout the Americas. Napoleon’s occupation of Spain in 1808 triggered independence movements in Spanish America. In 1810, when Spanish resistance to Napoleon was about to collapse completely, Creole Americans in Mexico, Venezuela, New Granada*, Argentina, and Chile launched independence movements.
*Viceroyalty of new Granada (1718-1819) included Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela,Guyana, and parts of northwestern Brazil, northern Peru, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
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(left) Claudio Linati, Miguel Hidalgo, from Costumes du Mexique, Brussels, 1828(center and right) Juan O’Gorman (Mexican, 1905-1982), detail from Chapultepec Castle (now National Museum of History, Mexico City) mural showing Hidalgo, c.1944; Portrait of Miguel Hidalgo, n.d., preparatory study for mural, charcoal on paper
Hidalgo, a parish priest, initiated the 1810 indigenous uprising against Spain. However: “Both culturally and economically, Independence was for the creoles, not the Indians.” (Ades)
“Father of Mexico”
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Stairway roof with portrait of Miguel Hidalgo by Jose Clemente Orozco in the Palacio del Gobierno. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1937, fresco
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Antonio Salas (attributed), Portrait of Simon Bolivar 1829, o/c, 23” x 18”. Bolivar (1783-1830), from a wealthy Venezuelan creole family, led independence wars in the present nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, gaining independence for most of the northern part of South America
“It will be said that I have liberated the new World, but it will not be said that I perfected the stability and happiness of any of the nations that compass it.”
“We have ploughed the sea”
Bolivar
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Pedro José Figueroa, Simon Bolivar, Liberator and Father of the Nation, 1819, oil on canvas, Quinta de Bolivar, Colombia; Indian woman as “America” or the New Republic
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Academies and History Painting
“The Royal Academy of san Carlos in Mexico City, founded in 1785, was the first academy of art in America, and the only one established under colonial rule…. In Brazil, the Academia Imperial de Belas Arteswas founded in Rio de Janeiro…in 1826 with the French painter J.B. Debret, who trained in [Jacques Louis]David’s studio, as director…. In Peru, the Academy was founded in 1919….” (coinciding with the arrival of modern art)
(Ades)
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Natalia Majluf, “Ce n’es pas le Peru,” or, the Failure of Authenticity: Marginal Cosmopolitans at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855”
“The movement of artists and intellectuals from Latin America to metropolitan centers (and usually back) increased dramatically after
independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century…young Creole Americans traveled to Paris, London, and Rome not as exiles or
émigrés but as cosmopolitans, as participants in a world culture.”
“…but the international community has systematically rejected any sign of their sameness.” (Majluf)
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Francisco Laso, The Indian Potter (or Dweller in the Cordillera)1855, o/c, 4’4” H., Lima
“The same comparative context that rejected the cosmopolitanism of the Latin American artists served simultaneously to locate France at the very center of the international art scene.” Majluf
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José Correia de Lima (Rio de Janeiro, 1814 -1857) Portrait of Simon the Sailor, c. 1855, oil on canvas, 37 x 29 inches. One of first academic portraits of an African-Brazilian.
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José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (Brazil 1859-1899), The Guitar Player, 1899, o/c, 56” H, Pinocoteca do Estado de Sao Paolo Academic genre paintings“costumbrismo” and “realism”
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(left) Aztec goddess, Coatlique, c. 1500 C.E. discovered in 1790, Mexico City; (right) Praxiteles, Hermes & Dionysus, 4th Century B.C.The Royal Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City was thoroughly European in its aims and practices. Students studied from a selection of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures sent from Spain. The question of “beauty” of European versus ancient Indigenous Mexican work was discussed.
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Juan Cordero (Mexico, 1824-1884), The Bather, c.1860, oil on canvas, 59 X 45 in.
Cordero’s draped nude shocked Mexican visitors at a 1864 exhibition.
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Juan Cordero (Mexico, 1824-1884), Columbus Before the Catholic Monarchs, 1850, o/c, 68” H. First history painting of an American subject seen by Mexican viewers.
Academic history paintings were popular in the Americas as political propaganda for self-determination of national identity.
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Martín Tovar y Tovar (Venezuela, 1827-1902), The Battle of Carabobo (detail), 1887, one of six canvas murals for the dome of the Salón Elíptico in the capitol building of Caracas, Venezuela 1887. Simón Bolívar’s revolutionary army won the 1821 battle and entered Caracas to claim independence for Venezuela.
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José Maria Obregón, The Inspiration of Columbus, 1856, oil, 58” high
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Arturo Michelena (Venezuela 1863 -1898), Miranda in La Carraca, 1896, oil on canvas, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas. Comparison (right) is Jacques-Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787. Neo-Classicism, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Felix Parra, The Massacre of Cholula (detail, below right), 1877, oil on canvas, 31 x 41 inches, National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Parra’s painting documents an incident of appalling genocide ordered by Cortes in 1519 as described in Brevísima Relación de la Destrucción de las Indias (1552) by the Spanish missionary Fray Bartolomé de las Casas.
Subjects are “objects of paternalism typicalof 19th century writing about the contemporary Indian.”
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Cholula, a Mexican city second only to Tenochtitlan in 1519 and the arrival of Cortes. The largest man-made monument in the world, the great temple of Quetzalcoatl at Cholula from a distance looks like a small mountain with a Catholic cathedral at the crest. (right) a fraction of a staircase on one side of the pyramid has been restored to its former state.
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Felix Parra, Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, 1875, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. The woman turns to the Christian friar and not the “Aztec” god.
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José Maria Obregón, Discovery of Pulque, 1869, oil on canvas73 x 91 in., Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. Xochitl, in this story, the discoverer of pulque, presents it to Tecpancaltzin. Academic Neoclassicism in Mexico. European “throne scene” and Europeanized features, lightened skin, “Greek” postures, all meant to appeal to the audiences for and patrons of academic painting.
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Leandro Izaguirre, Torture of Cuauhtémoc, 1893, oil on canvas, over 9 x 14 feet, National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Cuauhtémoc (c.1502–1525) was the Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521. Painted for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.
Historicist indigenism
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José María Velasco (Mexican,1840-1912) Self Portrait, 1894, oil on canvas, 22 x 16.5”, Museo Nacional de Arte de México
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José María Velasco, Templo de San Bernardo (San Bernardo Church), 1861oil on paper mounted on canvas, 13 X 17 ½ inches
A study Velasco did as a student at the Academy San Carlos in Mexico City. It shows the destruction of a church to create city boulevards. Modernization of Mexico is documented in Velasco’s oeuvre with obvious ambiguity.
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(right) Eugenio Landesio (Italian active in Mexico City), The Valley of Mexico, n.d., oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. Velasco’s teacher at the Academy of San Carlos painting is in the 17th century tradition of Claude Lorraine(left) Claude Lorraine (French, 1604-1682), Pastoral Landscape 1638
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Eugenio Landesio, The Valley of Mexico, n.d., oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. Velasco’s teacher’s painting is in the 17th century tradition of Claude Loraine
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José María Velasco, View of the Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel, 1877, oil on canvas, 90 inches across, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. Velasco’s most famous painting. Compare with Eugenio Landesio, The Valley of Mexico. Note “wild and rugged features which resist the smoothing and unifying eye” (Ades)
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Velasco, Metlac Ravine, Viewed from Near the Station in Fortin, 1897, o/c, 41” h(right) anonymous photograph of Metlac ravine, 1910
Modernization of Mexico
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José Maria Velasco, Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel, 1877, o/c, 5’3”x7’6” – site of Mexico City, and the Teotihuacan, Toltec and Aztec civilizations(right) Thomas Cole (English-American, 1801-1848, Hudson River School) View from Mt. Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow), 1836
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Velasco exhibited 68 paintings in Paris at the Universal Exposition of 1889 and saw Impressionism for the first time and painted a few Impressionist landscapes in Paris, but he remained an academic painter.
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas, 18.9 x 24.8 inches, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris,
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Traveler-Reporter Artists
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(left) Albert Eckhout (Dutch, ca.1610-1666) Tarairiu Woman and Tarairiu Man, 1641, over 8 ft tall, oil on canvas, National Museum of Denmark
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Frederick Catherwood (English, 1799-1854), 1844, lithograph, Classic Maya ruins at Copán Honduras, Stele D (435-822), depicting ruler, Eighteen Rabbit
Photograph showing detail of portrait stele
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Frederick Catherwood (English, 1799-1854), 1844, Maya, Cenote of Bolenchen, Yucatan, Mexico, lithograph plate from Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, 1844, Royal Institute of British Architects, London. Catherwood’s books were best sellers in Europe.
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Main temple at Tulum, by Catherwood, from Views of Ancient Monuments, 1844
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Johann Rugendas (German, 1802-1858) (right) Study of Palm Trees, c. 1831, oil sketch; (left) Costumes in Rio, 1823; (center) Slave Hunter, 1824
From Voyage Pittoresque dans le Brésil (Picturesque Voyage to Brazil), with more than 100 illustrations, still one of the most important documents about 19th-century Brazil.
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Johann Rugendas, Indians on a Farm, 1824
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(left) Joseph Skinner (British), 2 plates from The Present State of Peru, London, 1805(right) Carl Nebel (German) Indian Charcoal-Makers, watercolor reproduced as
lithograph in Voyage Picturesque and Archeological in the Most Interesting Parts of Mexico, Paris, 1836
Facsimile of Skinner’s 1805book available through Amazon.com
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Carl Nebel (German) watercolor, 1829-1834, reproduced as a lithograph in Voyage Picturesque and Archeological in the Most Interesting Parts of Mexico, Paris, 1836
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Edouard Pingret (French, 1788-1875), (left) Indian, oil on canvas, after 1857; (right) Waterseller, c. after 1857, o/c, 23” HFrom 1850 to 1855 Pingret lived and worked in Mexico City, exhibiting annually at the Academia de Bellas Artes. Costumbrismo
Catalogue of Pingret’s costumbrismo paintings
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(left) Claudio Gay (French) Costumes of Country People, Physical and Political Historical Atlas of Chile, Paris, 1854(right) Juan Manuel Blanes (Uruguayan), Dusk, n.d., oil on cardboard, 9 ½ “ H
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Carmelo Fernandez, (left) Mestizo Farmers of Anis, Ocana Province(right) Notables of the Capital, Santander Province, Colombia , Colombia, 1850-9,
watercolor, National Library, Bogota
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Christiano Junior, Cartes de visite, 1860s, Rio de Janeiro; detail on right
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Anonymous, Women of Lima, n.d., photograph, Lima
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José María Velasco (Mexican,1840-1912) Self Portrait, 1894, oil on canvas, 22 x 16.5”, Museo Nacional de Arte de México
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José María Velasco, Templo de San Bernardo (San Bernardo Church), 1861oil on paper mounted on canvas, 13 X 17 ½ inches
A study Velasco did as a student at the Academy San Carlos in Mexico City. It shows the destruction of a church to create city boulevards. Modernization of Mexico is documented in Velasco’s oeuvre with obvious ambiguity.
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(right) José Maria Velasco, Valley of Oaxaca, 1888, oil on canvas, 42 x 63” (left) Claude Lorraine (French, 1604-1682), Pastoral Landscape 1638
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Velasco, Metlac Ravine, Viewed from Near the Station in Fortin, 1897, o/c, 41” h(right) anonymous photograph of Metlac ravine, 1910
Modernization of Mexico
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José Maria Velasco, Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel, 1877, o/c, 5’3”x7’6”(right) Thomas Cole (English-American, 1801-1848, Hudson River School) View from Mt. Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow), 1836
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José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican printmaker,1852-1913)
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(left) José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852-1913), Artists’ Purgatory (right) J.J.Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, French, 1803-1847) Chamber of
Deputies, 1867, engraving
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In 1900 Maucci Brothers, a Spanish publisher, commissioned Posada to illustrate a series of pamphlets for children on the history of Mexico. Each pamphlet measuring 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. is approximately 16 pages. The cover illustrations are probably the only mechanically produced chromolithographs that Posada ever did. Jean Charlot collection, University of Hawaii
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José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera of the Newspapers, 1889-95type metal engraving, MoMA NYC
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Posada, Streets of the City of Mexico on the Morning of 9 February 1913, n.d., zinc engraving,
(right) Skeletons at a fractional price as never seen before in all of the Capital.