The Art Worl d March 2, 2020 Issu e The Lasting Influence of Mexico’s Great Muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros created a movement with galvanizing effects north of the border. By Peter Schjeldah l February 24, 2020 José Clemente Orozco’s “Zapatistas,” from 1931, lyricizes the revolutionary force. Courtesy MOMA / © ARS, New York The title of a thumpingly great show at the Whitney, “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945,” picks an overdue art-historical fight. The usual story of American art in those two decades revolves around young, often immigrant American aesthetes striving to absorb European modernism. A triumphalist tale composed backward from its climax—the postwar success of Abstract Expressionism —it brushes aside the prevalence, in the Depression thirties, of politically themed figurative art: social realism, more or less, which became ideologically to...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Malala" redirects here. For other uses, see Malala (disambiguation) . Malala Yousafzai ملاله یوسفزۍ Yousafzai in 2019 Born 12 July 1997 (age 22) Mingora, Swat , Pakistan Nationality Pakistani Citizenship Pakistan Canada ( honorary ) [1] Education Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Occupation Activist for female education, former blogger for BBC Urdu and student Organisation Malala Fund Known for Activist for the right to education , especially female education Parent(s) Toor Pekai Yousafzai (mother) Ziauddin Yousafzai (father) Awards 2014 Nobel Peace Prize ( Full list ) Website www .malala .org Malala Yousafzai ( Urdu : ملالہ یوسفزئی ; Pashto : ملاله یوسفزۍ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj] ; [2] born 12 July 1997), [2] [3] also known mononymously as Malala , is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. [4] She i...