Original Ricardo H Salazar (Mexican) Graphite Drawing On Paper Signed LR

Description

Original Ricardo H Salazar (Mexican) Graphite Drawing On Paper,
Depicting A Seated Woman Wearing A Cowgirl Hat & A Standing Man Carrying A Shoulder Bag and Back Pack Admiring Each Other’s Acquaintance,
Dimensions: 25”W X 19.75”H
Signed In Pencil LR; “Chililico Hgo. Mexico, 8-14-76, Ricardo H Salazar”
Condition; “Used, Framed, Under Glass”
Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
Artist biography:
Ricardo Salazar was a creative artist. Born in 1922, Ricardo Salazar passed away in 2006. Artists like Micheline De Rougemont, Harold A. Laynor, Augusto Gomes Martins, Leonda Froelich Finke, and Boris Sergeevich Khudyakov were also born in 1922.
Further Biographical Context for Ricardo Salazar
Ricardo Salazar was born in 1922 and grew up during the 1930s and was influenced by the artistic culture of the time. Internationally this period can be best characterised by the conflict between the world’s dominant political philosophies - Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. In Europe, Surrealism continued to be the leading artistic trend; a kind of expression and school of thought that by this time had spread worldwide. In Mexico, artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera integrated many of these philosophies into their radical political ideologies to develop a new kind of magic realism. In the United States, the Great Depression had a tremendous impact on artistic production, with many artists taking inspiration from the agrarian and the modest man in the streets. It was the first time in US history that widespread collectives of artists began to address politics, and endeavoured to use their art to influence society. Artists held exhibitions on social and political themes such as poverty, lack of affordable housing, anti-lynching, anti-fascism, and workers' strikes. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s government required urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret strategy to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a primary list of two hundred and fifty irreplaceable paintings by the Old Masters, many of which found their way to the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler. The era took a sinister turn with the beginning of National Socialism in Germany, and Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. The decade would conclude in the inset on the Second World War; a political and social furore that preoccupied not only artists, but large swathes of the global populatio