Mexican Paintings Exhibit taking place in Singapur

 

Mexican President Felipe Calderon?s wife, Margarita Zavala, recently inaugurated the exhibition "The Road to Modernity ", where mexican painters work of art is being exposed.

 

The show is made up of artworks by mexican painters Saturnino Herrán, Francisco Goitia, Angel Zarraga, Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros & José Clemente Orozco, among others.

 

At Singapur?s Museum of Art, Mexico?s First Lady commented that one of the best ways to learn about a foreign culture is by appreciating its? art and esthetics because this lets us understand the differences between cultures and civilizations.

 

She explained that the art show consists of a series of works by artists born between the end of the XIX Century and beginning of the XX Century, but were consolidated as painters when Mexico was headed to modernity, in the years previous to the Mexican Revolution in 1910.

 

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