MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera
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Modotti photographed these murals and other artworks. Though there was a revolution, the indigenous peasants and workers were still disenfranchised. Her work became more and more connected to the social cause of equality for these people. She began recording the life of the common people of. Her style is still strongly formalist, as weston"s. But whereas weston seems uninterested in content or subject, The content becomes most important for modotti, She adapted the modernist abstract style to a subject of social concern. This was a synthesis of artistic form and social content. She followed the mexican muralists here, and fused art with revolutionary politics. Ppt: campesinos marching on may day, the workers. This fiesta was photographed in the town of juchit n. She records the energetic, bustling crowd caught up in the day"s celebration. On these travels, she usually photographed women. But in this case she shows men.
