Jean Charlot
La danza de los malinches
1926
Oil on canvas
81 x 125.4 cm
FEMSA Collection
©The Jean Charlot Estate LLC. With permission.
In line with the interests that defined Charlot’s artistic career, La danza de los malinches depicts a moment taken from the Mexican imagination. The characters, whose faces do not reveal much, express themselves through their bodies dressed in vividly colored clothing. Both the movement in the depiction, as well as the clothing and the elements worn and held by the figures, allude to a traditional dance. The scene is one of the various ways in which the artist expressed her admiration for indigenous cultures and their traditions, giving the viewer an interpretation of one of the multiple and diverse identity expressions existing in Mexico.
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