VIENNA.- The photographer Tina Modotti, who was born in 1896 in Udine, Italy and died in 1942 in Mexico, was one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century. She became famous as a result of the photographs she created in Mexico in the 1920s and her involvement in the revolutionary...
Devotees of communism evoke a grim picture of stern and ascetic men and women in sparsely furnished rooms, free of bourgeois luxuries. And then there is the glamorous Tina Modotti, an Italian photographer and political revolutionary. An exhibition...
A biographer uncovers new material on the Italian-born photographer, actress, revolutionary and spy.
By Sarah Coleman
In Edward...
In this portrait, made with black chalk on paper, Rivera quickly established the outlines of her head and face, then carefully drew Modotti‘s eyes, nose, and mouth. Her facial features are striking and Rivera draws our attention...
In the decades following the Revolution of 1910, foreign artists and intellectuals flocked to Mexico in order to experience its warm climate and lively cultural scene. They were inspired by Mexico‘s exotic tropical landscape, its ancient monuments and colonial architecture, the work of its modern...
