Masterpieces of Mexican Art from the XIX and XX Centuries as well as Colonial Painting. All of them are a Private Collection.

Mexico counts on a millenarian artistic tradition and constantly renewed, by deep ethnic and historical root. As much the pre-Hispanic art as the one of the ages Modern and Contemporary has created masterpieces, expression of occurring in the time and the culture. The " mexicanidad " of its art is doubtless and is its right to be in the own vital attitude, in its evident form to understand the existence. The irrefutable seal of the Mexican marks its origin. As it happens in the main civilizations, their works hardly can be confused with those of different hontanares and with different signs from identity.

In first half of our century, Mexico lived one on its more crucial historical stages. In 1910, when being fulfilled the one hundred years of the shout of Dolores, who initiated the stage of her emancipation of the Spanish dominion, the revolution exploded that broke the prosperous one and prolonged " porfiriana peace ". Civil fight and fight of classes, the Mexican revolution was a revulsivo that opened new horizons. The political and military fight and the popular rise, in addition to the ideological change of the intellectuals and artists, forged a new nation.

As from a crucible a dynamic and modern Mexico arose, with anxieties of total transformation of its structures. In the scope of the international art at the end of century XIX " modernity " had different facets. In England, France, Belgium, Austria, Italy or Spain, as of 1880 new an aesthetic one broke through. Modern-Style, Art Nouveau, Secession, Liberty or Modernismo were the several expressions of an art with a common denominator. The symbolism, the decadentismo and the arcaismo finiseculares extended by all the orb, as much to a side as to the other of the Atlantic. Agreeing with the decline of the dictatorial regime of Don Porfirio Diaz, Mexico knew a change artistic.

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