Museo Nacional de Arte

The exhibition Vanguardia en papel presented one of the less known collections of Mexican art by showing artworks in paper that use techniques such as engravings, drawings, watercolors, among others. The exhibition was composed of 51 pieces of authors like Cueto, Tamayo, Guerrero Galván, O’Higgins, Covarrubias, Orozco, Romero, Toledo, Alice Rahon, Leonora Carrington, David Alfaro Siqueiros. From the second half of the 20th century, the Mexican art had an important turning point. The influence of the European Plastic movements, along with the concern of a group of young authors that were part of the Breakaway Generation, produced one of the most important artworks of the last century. Those artworks belonged to Abstract art and the movements that followed.