Jean Charlot
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La peinture mexicaine n'est devenue internationalement reconnue qu'au début du 20e siècle. Ce fut le mouvement muraliste, à partir des années 1920, fortement lié à la révolution mexicaine de la décennie précédente, à partir de laquelle de grands artistes comme José Clémente Orozco (1883-1949), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) et Diego Rivera (1886-1957) ont émergé. Rarement l'art a été plus politique. Les muralistes mexicains érigent...
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Mexican painting did not come to be internationally recognised until the early 20th century. It was the muralist movement, starting in the 1920s and strongly connected to the Mexican Revolution of the previous decade, from which such great artists as José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), and Diego Rivera (1886-1957) emerged. Rarely has art been more political. Thus, what Mexican muralists of the time put up on the...
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"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, one of the towering achievements in American fiction, and a novel read throughout the world, begins. By fate or chance, a monk has witnessed the collapse. Brother Juniper, moved by the tragedy, embarks on a quest to prove a higher order is at work in the deaths of those who perished. His...
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