Stop the War
Dublin Core
Title
Stop the War
Creator
José Luis Cuevas
Format
25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Identifier
86
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Biography
José Luis Cuevas was a Mexican artist affiliated with the post-World War II movement the Generación de la Ruptura, or Breakaway Generation. Believing that Mexican art had become too mainstream and diluted, Cuevas and the other members of the Generación opposed Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera, José Clement Orozco, and David Alfaro Sisquieros, who they saw as inhibiting artistic development and being overly deferential to the Mexican government. Born on February 26, 1934 in Mexico City, Mexico, Cuevas went on study at the National School of Painting and Sculpture at the age of 10. Over time, he developed a unique aesthetic of paintings and sculptures depicting disfigured or disproportioned figures and portraits. Cuevas represented Mexico in the 1982 Venice Biennale, and created a museum to himself in an old monastery which opened in 1992. The museum and Cuevas himself are both controversial, with the glorification of Cuevas’ life and sexual prowess as a main topic of his museum. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. The artist died on July 3, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Category
WSPAC
Media
Silkscreen
Media Details
Silkscreen in colors on paper
Signature Position
Signed and dated, upper left; signed, lower right; numbered 35/50, lower left
Donor
Mr. and Mrs. Burt Chernow
Citation
José Luis Cuevas , “Stop the War,” Westport Public Schools Digital Collections, accessed April 16, 2021, https://collections.westportps.org/items/show/111.
Item Relations
This Item | dcterms:relation | Item: Staples Art Storage |
This Item | dcterms:creator | Item: José Luis Cuevas |