diego rivera

i have lived in mexico city for 3 months

and i finally went to the palacio nacional

and saw the diego rivera murals.

about freakin' time.

but it almost didn't happen.

here's the story -- 

rcg and i go to see the picasso exhibit

and are distracted by the surprise mc escher exhibit.

by the time we are done at munal it is 4 pm.

palacio nacional closes at 5 pm.

disaster? maybe.

we start to walk to the zocolo

and get distracted by food.

(duh.)

and rcg is trying to distract me the whole walk over anyways

because he is not a diego rivera fan.

but i would not be deterred -- 

so we got there at 430 pm. 

and then had to wait in the bag check line

behind some daft, hippy white girls.

but we made it.

and it was amazing.

the big super famous mural was awesome.

obviously.

   

 

but the really spectacular paintings 

were of the prehispanic people.

 

 

 

on top of the beautiful paintings

there were cats everywhere.

adorable.

mc escher

as we walked around the museo nacional de arte

we ran into a mc escher exhibit.

 

awesome!

  

 

 

 samuel jessurun de mesquite

búho, 1915

 

 

 

 

yeah.

mc escher is pretty baller.

pablo picasso

pablo may be one of my favorite artists

(obviously we are on a first name basis.)

 so when there was an opportunity

to see some of his prints

rcg and i jumped at the chance. 

unfortunately, i left my camera at home

so rcg's ipod will have to do.

apologies.

what was great about this exhibit

is that it was all new stuff,

stuff i had never seen before.

there were prints of greek orgies,

a couple prints of a family, 

and a series about a man smoking a cigarette. 

 all in differing styles -- 

some were in color, 

some just with black and white lines, 

some with texture and shading,

and some were just outlines.

it was pretty rad.

but the cool thing about this exhibit

is that the museum put together 

a companion exhibit 

that showed mexican art during the time

picasso was working.

it was an interesting perspective.

and some of the art was 

spectacular.

dia de la candelaria