A controversial painting of a Mexican Revolution hero will remain on exhibit accompanied by a note saying the descendants of Emiliano Zapata do not agree with the effeminate depiction
, Mexico's culture ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
Mexican artist Fabian Chairez stands next to his painting of Mexican Revolution hero Emiliano Zapata straddling on a horse nude, wearing high heels and a pink, broad-brimmed hat.The painting displayed as part of an exhibit of artworks about Zapata in the Fine Arts Palace shows a nude man with the revolutionary's signature moustache astride a horse. He's wearing high heels and striking a seductive pose.
Zapata's relatives had threatened to sue to have the painting taken down, arguing that it denigrated Zapata. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called on his culture secretary to mediate the dispute. He said the family should be heard, but that art shouldn't be censored., by painter Fabian Chairez, spurred protests by farmers and counter-protests by defenders of sexual diversity this week.
The painting was part of an exhibit of 141 works representing Zapata in different ways - as a leader of the 1910-20 Revolution but also an "icon of feminist battles and contemporary activism," as the government's fine-arts institute described it. Zapata's image is as ubiquitous in Mexico as George Washington's is in the United States, appearing on buildings, money and T-shirts.AP, Washington Post
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