1932 (ca.), Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Zapatistas -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: By portraying these armed men dressed in plain cotton shirts and wide-brim straw hats made for shielding one's skin from the harsh sun, Ramos Martinez indicates that these are not professionally trained soldiers, but former agricultural workers. Known as Zapatistas for their allegiance to Emiliano Zapata, they were participants in a guerrilla campaign during the Mexican Revolution (1910-17). An advocate for land reform, Zapata's utopian vision was summed up in the motto: "The land belongs to those who plough it!"
1932 (ca.), Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Zapatistas -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: By portraying these armed men dressed in plain cotton shirts and wide-brim straw hats made for shielding one's skin from the harsh sun, Ramos Martinez indicates that these are not professionally trained soldiers, but former agricultural workers. Known as Zapatistas for their allegiance to Emiliano Zapata, they were participants in a guerrilla campaign during the Mexican Revolution (1910-17). An advocate for land reform, Zapata's utopian vision was summed up in the motto: "The land belongs to those who plough it!"