Modernismo, pasado-presente. El México de Saturnino Herrán

Abstract

Mexican modernism is a movement that provides important insights both to
the history of the Mexican aesthetics, as well as to the relection and to the
construction of the image of what is “Mexican”. he reassessment of Mexican
modernism enables veriication that the revolutionary period does not necessarily
represent, much less as it was intended, a rupture in the construction
of a narrative and of a national identity with respect to the immediately preceding
period. Issues such as indigenism, miscegenation and the very idea of
nation are developed even more in the Poririate. However, modernism is also
an original and peculiar movement, and given that its relation to the image is
less sacralized and freer than in previous and subsequent periods. his allows
it to acquire two rare traits, particularly in painters like Julio Ruelas and Saturnino
Herrán: irst of all, a great opening and reception of international art
and to its diversity of styles; and secondly, an equally desacralized and nonideological
dialogue between the diverse arts and eras.