The Merry-Go-Round (El carrusel)

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The Merry-Go-Round (El carrusel)

Mexico, Mexico City, 1948
Prints; linocuts
Linocut
11 7/8 × 15 3/4 in. (30.16 × 40.01 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ben and Shirley Berman (M.2001.15.1)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Leopoldo Méndez created this linocut for the opening credits of the film Pueblerina, directed by Emilio Fernández (1904–1986) and shot by Gabriel Figueroa (1907–1997)—two greats of the Gold

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Leopoldo Méndez created this linocut for the opening credits of the film Pueblerina, directed by Emilio Fernández (1904–1986) and shot by Gabriel Figueroa (1907–1997)—two greats of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Film collaborations offered a new creative avenue to Méndez, who had long aspired to make graphic murals and to create prints on a monumental scale. While other images from the film depict scenes of labor or hardship, here Méndez illustrates a melancholic moment of leisure.


Rachel Kaplan, 2023
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Exhibition history

  • Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa—Art and Film Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 22, 2013 - February 2, 2014