"El trabajador" ... noviembre 1959, n. 1: Arte para el pueblo (The Worker ... November 1959, No. 1: Art for the People) Artist: Various

1959

Prints and Drawings

The Taller de Gráfica Popular received international acclaim for its work, with both individual prints and entire exhibitions traveling to Latin America, Europe, and the United States. In 1959 the Venezuelan Ministry of Labor organized an exhibition of Mexican art, including a number of images by the Taller, which traveled through Venezuela, attracting huge crowds. This broadside reproduces images by Taller artists Alberto Beltrán, Pablo O’Higgins, Andrea Gómez, José Chávez Morado, Ignacio Aguirre, and David Alfaro Siqueiros (misidentified as by Camilo Minero, a Salvadoran who worked at the Taller in the late 1950s). El trabajador was a ministry publication intended as a “new voice” for Venezuelan workers. In reproducing prints from the Taller, El trabajador appropriates the techniques and populist momentum of the Mexican collective for Venezuelan labor politics.

Medium

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 37 3/8 × 25 1/8 in. (95 × 63.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Monroe E. Price, B.A. 1960, LL.B. 1964, and Aimée Brown Price, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1972

Accession Number

2015.14.1

Geography
Culture
Period

20th century

Classification
Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Provenance

Purchased from the Taller de Gráfica by Aimée Brown Price and Monroe E. Price
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 78
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Additional information

Object/Work type

commercial art, dissident art, figures (representations), histories (visual works), offset lithographs, political art

Subject

laborers

Inscriptions

Nothing on verso

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