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Detail of Agrarian Leader Zapata by Diego Rivera in the Museum of Modern Art, March 2010
Diego Rivera
Agrarian Leader Zapata
1931
Medium: Fresco on reinforced cement in galvanized-steel framework
Dimensions: 7' 9 3/4" x 6' 2" (238.1 x 188 cm)
Credit: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Object number: 1631.1940
Department: Painting and Sculpture
Zapata líder agrario (Agrarian Leader Zapata) replicates a detail of a large-scale mural Rivera painted in 1930 in Cuernavaca, in the Mexican state of Morelos. It features the state’s revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, who fought to reclaim communal lands and water access from encroaching sugarcane plantations on behalf of displaced farming communities. He is depicted carrying a sugar-cutter’s machete and dressed in humble white farmworker clothing, rather than in the black charro (horseman) outfit in which he is usually pictured. Rivera emphasized Zapata’s rural origins and his battle for land reform as central to the post-revolutionary idea of Mexico.-- Gallery label from 2022
In the 1920s, after the Mexican Revolution, Rivera was among the painters who developed an art of public murals to celebrate Mexico’s indigenous culture and to teach the nation’s people about their history and the new government’s dreams for their future. Rivera had lived in Paris and knew modernist painting well. He had also visited Italy to study Renaissance frescoes, a mural form that Mexican artists and politicians recognized as a valuable medium of education and inspiration. Returning to Mexico in 1921, Rivera began a remarkable series of frescoes—paintings made on moist plaster, so that the pigments fuse with the plaster as it dries.
In 1931 MoMA hosted a major exhibition of Rivera’s work. Unable to transport his murals, the Museum instead brought the artist to New York six weeks before the show’s opening and provided him with a makeshift studio in the gallery. Agrarian Leader Zapata, one of five “portable murals” made on this occasion, replicates part of a fresco he had painted in 1930 in the Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca. Emiliano Zapata had been a leader of the Mexican Revolution. (He was killed in 1919, a victim of the revolution’s internal struggles.) Rivera painted him wearing the local costume of the Cuernavaca region and carrying a sugarcane-cutter’s machete. Though Mexican and US newspapers regularly vilified Zapata as a treacherous bandit, Rivera immortalized him as a hero and glorified the revolution in an image of violent but just vengeance.-- Publication excerpt from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019)
Emiliano Zapata, a champion of agrarian reform and a key protagonist in the Mexican Revolution, here leads a band of peasant rebels armed with provisional weapons, including farming tools. With the bridle of a majestic white horse in his hand, Zapata stands triumphantly beside the dead body of a hacienda owner. Though Mexican and U.S. newspapers regularly vilified the revolutionary leader as a treacherous bandit, Rivera immortalized Zapata as a hero and glorified the victory of the Revolution in an image of violent but just vengeance.
Rivera's depiction also departs from portrayals of the rebel propagated by Zapata himself. An expert horseman, Zapata consistently presented himself as a charro, a cowboy whose flamboyant dress—tight pants and a vest with silver ornamentation—signaled an elevated class status in Mexico. Rivera’s vision of Zapata as a humble peasant offers a sympathetic portrait of a folk hero tirelessly devoted to agrarian reform. --- Gallery label from Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art, November 13, 2011-May 14, 2012
Text from: www.moma.org/collection/works/80682
Agrarian Leader Zapata
1931
Medium: Fresco on reinforced cement in galvanized-steel framework
Dimensions: 7' 9 3/4" x 6' 2" (238.1 x 188 cm)
Credit: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Object number: 1631.1940
Department: Painting and Sculpture
Zapata líder agrario (Agrarian Leader Zapata) replicates a detail of a large-scale mural Rivera painted in 1930 in Cuernavaca, in the Mexican state of Morelos. It features the state’s revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, who fought to reclaim communal lands and water access from encroaching sugarcane plantations on behalf of displaced farming communities. He is depicted carrying a sugar-cutter’s machete and dressed in humble white farmworker clothing, rather than in the black charro (horseman) outfit in which he is usually pictured. Rivera emphasized Zapata’s rural origins and his battle for land reform as central to the post-revolutionary idea of Mexico.-- Gallery label from 2022
In the 1920s, after the Mexican Revolution, Rivera was among the painters who developed an art of public murals to celebrate Mexico’s indigenous culture and to teach the nation’s people about their history and the new government’s dreams for their future. Rivera had lived in Paris and knew modernist painting well. He had also visited Italy to study Renaissance frescoes, a mural form that Mexican artists and politicians recognized as a valuable medium of education and inspiration. Returning to Mexico in 1921, Rivera began a remarkable series of frescoes—paintings made on moist plaster, so that the pigments fuse with the plaster as it dries.
In 1931 MoMA hosted a major exhibition of Rivera’s work. Unable to transport his murals, the Museum instead brought the artist to New York six weeks before the show’s opening and provided him with a makeshift studio in the gallery. Agrarian Leader Zapata, one of five “portable murals” made on this occasion, replicates part of a fresco he had painted in 1930 in the Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca. Emiliano Zapata had been a leader of the Mexican Revolution. (He was killed in 1919, a victim of the revolution’s internal struggles.) Rivera painted him wearing the local costume of the Cuernavaca region and carrying a sugarcane-cutter’s machete. Though Mexican and US newspapers regularly vilified Zapata as a treacherous bandit, Rivera immortalized him as a hero and glorified the revolution in an image of violent but just vengeance.-- Publication excerpt from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019)
Emiliano Zapata, a champion of agrarian reform and a key protagonist in the Mexican Revolution, here leads a band of peasant rebels armed with provisional weapons, including farming tools. With the bridle of a majestic white horse in his hand, Zapata stands triumphantly beside the dead body of a hacienda owner. Though Mexican and U.S. newspapers regularly vilified the revolutionary leader as a treacherous bandit, Rivera immortalized Zapata as a hero and glorified the victory of the Revolution in an image of violent but just vengeance.
Rivera's depiction also departs from portrayals of the rebel propagated by Zapata himself. An expert horseman, Zapata consistently presented himself as a charro, a cowboy whose flamboyant dress—tight pants and a vest with silver ornamentation—signaled an elevated class status in Mexico. Rivera’s vision of Zapata as a humble peasant offers a sympathetic portrait of a folk hero tirelessly devoted to agrarian reform. --- Gallery label from Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art, November 13, 2011-May 14, 2012
Text from: www.moma.org/collection/works/80682
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