Museo Nacional de Arte

The exhibition Diego, Frida y otros revolucionarios was an opportunity to show the processes that took place at the same time of great political and social revolutions. This exhibition began with the influence of the Mexican artist Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez in Colombian territory in the 19th century and it ended with the legacy that Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros left in the Latin-American art. Diego y Frida actively participated in the Mexican revolution and in the change of mentality that was necessary to render a country like Mexico to modernity. Their participation was registered and while they developed a national art, they also generated aesthetical ideas that had an impact on their production and in that of their contemporaries. That way they contributed to creating a favorable environment for the exchange of ideologies and forms. This exhibition allowed our country to show a series of little-known artworks from great artists whose names are widely recognized in the international picture. For example, early works, sketches, easel works and others that show the artistic avant-garde, more than politics, that the artists carried out in personal terms.