Notas del episodio
In 1928 Mexico City, a group of artists decided that the revolution wasn't over, and they chose to weaponize their canvases under the banner of the ¡30-30! Collective. Named after the lethal 30-30 Winchester rifle that defined the Mexican Revolution, this painting group launched an era of Concentrated Disruption specifically targeting the Academy of Painting and the rigid gatekeepers of Anti-Academic Art through the power of Artistic Manifestos. We begin our investigation by stripping away the "aesthetic decoration" label to reveal the raw reality of the post-revolutionary scene, where painters like Ramón Alva de la Canal and Fermín Revueltas declared absolute war on the established system. This deep dive focuses on the "ideological battering ram ...