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Zapatistas

1935

José Clemente Orozco

(Mexican, 1883–1949)
publisher

Delphic Studios

Culture
Mexico, 20th century
Medium
lithograph
Support
P.M. Fabriano wove paper
Watermarks
P.M. Fabriano
Measurements
Sheet: 44 x 56.6 cm (17 5/16 x 22 5/16 in.); Image: 32.2 x 41.3 cm (12 11/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2002.25
Catalogue raisonné
Hopkins 29; Orozco 24
State
I/I
Edition
130 official edition (187 actual printing)
Impression
65
Copyright
© José Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

José Clemente Orozco was one of numerous Mexican muralists to depict Emiliano Zapata around the time this print was made.

Description

This print depicts Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), a leader of the Mexican Revolution who became a symbol of progressive politics in the decades following his assassination. Zapata disavowed his privileged background and fought for workers’ rights. In spite of Zapata's heroic status, José Clemente Orozco’s print presents a disillusioned view of his followers: virtually identical men, they march forward under the eye of leaders as nefarious as those they initially rebelled against. The image suggests the complicated views that artists held about a revolution that fundamentally transformed their worldview and way of life.

Zapatistas

1935

José Clemente Orozco, Delphic Studios

(Mexican, 1883–1949)
Mexico, 20th century

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