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...withdrawing a knife from the neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting monstrosities, dire prophecies of the end of the world, dances of death, images of delirium. For in the main José Posada addressed an illiterate people who could best be reached with the imagery of sensational violence...
...with muscles gleaming like polished automobile fenders, strove and squirmed in apocalyptic combat. In the north panel, symbolizing the history of Mexico, a many-armed, many-legged, colossal bowman, representing the Aztec hero Cuauhtemoc, bestrode the prostrate body of a Spanish invader, while such heroes as Hidalgo, Morelos, Juarez, Zapata and Lazaro Cardenas looked appreciatively...
...common soldier, Padilla joined bush-whiskered Emiliano Zapata, a tenant farmer whose legions of peon generals spread terror among the owners of great haciendas. One of the few incorruptible revolutionists, Zapata believed genuinely in the social revolution. All Mexicans remember his motto: "Man of the South, it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...
...that period Zapata, the wild-riding Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza were all carrying the agrarian revolt toward Mexico City. Padilla was "drafted" as a secretary to one of Villa's generals. In his incongruous stiff collar and city clothes, he joined the Villistas. Forced to flee in 1916, he went first to Cuba, then to Manhattan, which he reached penniless...
Rivera had his first taste of revolution in the Mexican revolt of 1910, when such folk heroes as Zapata and Pancho Villa swept the land with fantasy. The wave receded; Mexico slept again; Rivera went to Paris and for ten years labored at Cubism in Montparnasse. He found his true style on his return, in his great Mexican frescoes. First with a beautiful, pantherish model named Guadalupe Marin and later with pretty Frida Kahlo, Rivera lived an active revolutionary life until 1929, when the Communist Party expelled...