Zapatista Landscape
painting by Rivera
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Latin American art
- In Latin American art: Cubism to Formalism
In Rivera’s Zapatista Landscape (1915), he arranged the abstracted elements of a typical Zapata follower—straw hat, rifle, and serape—in a flattened collage against a simplified snow-capped volcano, thus using Synthetic Cubist means to represent a Mexican reality.
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