La violencia de género : su representación en el arte mexicano

Abstract

In the first decades of the twentieth century, the works of José Guadalupe Posada, Frida Kahlo or Isabel Villaseñor evidenced the violence exercised by Mexican machismo, as can be seen in the red note in the newspapers of the time from which they extracted their themes. At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the misogynistic culture reached its maximum expression from the murders of the women of Juárez, perpetrated over ten years, where hundreds of corpses have been piled up in garbage dumps and vacant lots. of unpopulated areas. Hence, the artists extend their total repudiation of this shameful situation through an art that creates a visual discourse that synthesizes the culture of impunity, crime, misogyny, negligence and, in swna, the complicity of a society that tolerates femicide. These outrageous events give a special significance and relevance to Frida Kahlo's words: "In Mexico, killing is quite satisfactory and natural."