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Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular

11 imported works. Attributions follow the source museums.

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Plate 9: an allegory relating to the lack of freedom in the press efffected during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz , from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular1947

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Plate 54: the starving people in Mexico City, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular1947

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Flyer showing a teacher being attacked, aimed to encourage rural teachers to use illustrated propaganda as a tool against their oppressors (the Cristeros, also known as 'guardias blancas or 'white guards')

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popularca. 1938

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Ballad (corrido) of Mr Grasshopper (a corrupt middleman) who is shown receiving communion; a metaphor for peasant suffering under corrupt landowners

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popularca. 1940

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Ballad (corrido) relating to Mr. Grasshopper (a corrupt middleman) concerning peasant suffering under landowners, he is seated in a chair smoking a cigar

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popularca. 1940

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Flyer relating to imperialism and war the new Mexican nationhood whose workers are unified against capitalism and imperialism, a figure with bayonets for legs and canons for arms holding a flag with a swastika

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular1938

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Portrait of Simeon Timoshenko

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular1942

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Poster protesting the appointment of Gonzalo N. Santos as Governor of the State of San Luis Potosí in Mexico

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular1943

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Poster advertising a convention (22–25 June, 1941) of the friends of USSR, addressing their support of the Soviet forces against the Nazis; a Soviet soldier offers his hand in a gesture of friendship

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular1941

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Poster relating to streetcar workers and the call for more equitable treatment of employees. Main image shows a bureaucrat gobbling money, lower left, the pitiful hourly rate workers are paid, lower right, 4000 homes without bread

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular1943

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Illustration for a broadside relating to oil companies that want to profit from Mexico's natural resources (oil) and human labor while not being mindful of the new age of social justice; two men throwing rocks at a vulture hovering over a nest

Leopoldo Méndez|Taller de Gráfica Popular1938

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