Preservation of Mexico’s Most Important Paintings: A Look Inside the National Institute of Fine Arts

In Mexico the most important paintings of the majority of the artists who worked in the country are still preserved (Facebook/National Institute of Fine Arts)

Mexico has given the art world some of the most recognized painters worldwide. Today, most of the most important works of these artists are found in the country, protected and preserved thanks to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

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Many of the most famous works are found in Mexico City, given that it was in the capital where most of the artists decided to settle once they had recognition, as well as because it is where some of the most important museums in the country are located. .

What is considered the most popular Mexican work of art is by Frida Kahlo, the most famous painter in the country, is The Two Fridas, made in 1939.

This work by Kahlo has gained worldwide recognition for the symbolism it contains and the artist’s ability to abstract her emotions (Facebook/National Museum of Modern Art of Mexico)

Known worldwide for the symbolism that the artist captured, she is also considered to be one of the most meticulous and with which her thoughts can be understood.

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This double self-portrait is in the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), where other of the country’s most famous works of art are also preserved.

The two Fridas is on a 173 by 173 centimeter canvas. Kahlo showed herself as she saw herself: two cultures, two people in one, her roots and the people she loved, like Diego Rivera.

Remedios compared creation itself with art, which in itself was the representation of his life (National Institute of Fine Arts)

Also at the MAM is The Creation of Birds, by the Spanish director Remedios Varo. Like Frida, Remedios is considered one of the greatest exponents of surrealism and symbolism in Mexico; her creations are popular in both America and Europe and most are preserved in the country.

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The Creation of Birds, from 1957, is just an example of what Remedios considered the beginning of life, an older bird giving life to others. The representation of creation from the canvas, the brush and the lights goes back to what she saw as her entire being, her passion: art.

In Mexico, landscaping took place for years, a way for people to know what was beyond the place where they were. Its greatest exponent has been José María Velasco, who to this day is one of the most famous artists.

Velasco is the greatest exponent of landscaping in Mexico and is still studied for the technique he used (Facebook/INBA National Art Museum)

Many of his creations are considered relevant to the history of art, but those about the Valley of Mexico are the most popular; most of these can be found in the National Museum of Art (MUNAL), where there is even a whole collection of his works.

Other paintings that Velasco dedicated to the view of the Valley of Mexico, as well as other places, are also in the Soumaya Museum of the Carlos Slim Foundation.

Regarding the great muralists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros or José Clemente Orozco, their works are in different places.

The transfer of this mural was one of the great jobs that the INAH did for the conservation and exhibition of the work (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Popularly, it is considered Diego Rivera’s most famous mural Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central, made in 1947. The painter did it at the Hotel del Prado, but today it is on permanent exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes Museum. that in the 1985 earthquake the facility was almost completely destroyed.

From Porfirismo to the Revolution (1957), one of the creations of David Alfaro Siqueiros, is on the ground floor of the National Museum of History of Chapultepec Castle. On the other hand, Katharsis, one of the most famous works of José Clemente Orozco, is in the Palace of Fine Arts.

(Facebook/Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts)

As for Leonora Carrington, although she was not a muralist as such, her most famous work is considered to be a mural, The Magical World of the Mayans, which she made for the government in 1963 and is in the National Museum of Anthropology.

2023-11-11 04:22:49
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