Reading Red: Art & Social Revolution
Against The Current vol. 117
Wald, Alan
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/267
Date Written: 2005-07-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2005
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13162
Throughout much of the 20th century, distinguished painters and muralists were habitually adjoined to revolutionary movements, sometimes producing monumental works expressive of socialist dreams, as well as of the aims and struggles of working people and anti-fascist fighters. One thinks immediately of Spain’s Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973), Mexico’s Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), and the Russian avant-garde of the early Soviet Union.
