Agustín Lazo

Muralists were privileged in their great compositions with a critical subject, at times epic on the great vices and virtues of man and his institutions in the course of history. Nonetheless, a good part of modern Mexican painting did not share those aesthetic currents; on the contrary, they went deeper into the personal and intimate condition of the Mexican people. Agustín Lazo was precisely a painter of the private dimension, of the unique personal tragedies and joys that on many occasions were included in a cryptic way in his works. The lyric vein of his subject matter gives him a close link to the poets of the magazine Contemporáneos, but also to the art of Surrealism that he became familiar with directly from his stay in Europe. La costurera is a piece by Agustín Lazo that reminds us, in its color, of a certain period from the palette of Franz Marc and André Lhote. The painting appeared in the catalog of the Hall of Painting of 1945, of the Gallery of Decorative Arts.