Vivac De Revolucionarios
Mariana Yampolsky
Object Label
The Taller de Gráfica Popular (or the People’s Print Workshop) was established in 1937 in Mexico City by artists Raúl Anguiano (1915–2006), Luis Arenal (1908–1985), Leopoldo Méndez (1902–1969), and Pablo O’Higgins (1904–1983) and was open to applicants from all social classes and backgrounds. Elizabeth Catlett and Charles White, two U.S.-based artists featured in this exhibition, made use of the workshop in the 1940s.
The stated purpose of the workshop was to disseminate affordable prints with messages of political empowerment by giving artists the tools to create graphic images. These images have been used to educate the rural working class about the political and cultural gains of the Mexican Revolution, the power of solidarity across causes, and rallying antiimperialist, anti-fascist, and prolabor sentiment, among many other issues.
The stated purpose of the workshop was to disseminate affordable prints with messages of political empowerment by giving artists the tools to create graphic images. These images have been used to educate the rural working class about the political and cultural gains of the Mexican Revolution, the power of solidarity across causes, and rallying antiimperialist, anti-fascist, and prolabor sentiment, among many other issues.
Caption
Mariana Yampolsky (Mexican, 1925 – 2002). Vivac De Revolucionarios, 1947. Relief print on paper, sheet: 10 11/16 x 15 13/16 in. (27.1 x 40.2 cm) image: 9 x 12 1/4 in. (22.9 x 31.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Emily Winthrop Miles Fund, 1996.152.34.
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Publisher
Artist
Title
Vivac De Revolucionarios
Date
1947
Medium
Relief print on paper
Classification
Dimensions
sheet: 10 11/16 x 15 13/16 in. (27.1 x 40.2 cm) image: 9 x 12 1/4 in. (22.9 x 31.1 cm)
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left with title of the print and "49"
Credit Line
Emily Winthrop Miles Fund
Accession Number
1996.152.34
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