Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive
Robert Motherwell
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Date:1943 -
Style:Abstract Expressionism -
Genre:abstract
Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive
Robert Motherwell
Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive is a direct reference to a photograph that Motherwell encountered of the murdered revolutionary, Pancho Villa. The work straddles the line between referential painting and the style that would become Abstract Expressionism, and includes several thematic relationships that appear throughout the artist's oeuvre. In its allusion to the Mexican revolution, this work also prefigures the themes that would drive Motherwell's seminal Elegy to the Spanish Republic series.
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