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End the Blockade by Malaquias Montoya

End the Blockade by Malaquias Montoya

End the Blockade

Malaquias Montoya

Title

End the Blockade

 
Artist

Malaquias Montoya

  1938 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1989  
Technique
color serigraph 
Image Size
23 1/2 x 17 3/8" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
not stated 
Annotations
within the image: "In Solidarity with the people of Cuba and Nicaragua in their heroic struggle - July 19 and 26" 
Reference
 
Paper
white Rives BFK France wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
17347 
Price
SOLD
Description

Malaquias Montoya's "End the Blockade" is, on the surface, an homage to the Nicaraguan civil war of 1926-27. However, with its red-starred fatigue cap, it more widely acknowledges the struggles of several South American countries throughout the 20th century and was produced near the end of one the most violent eras of conflict in Nicaragua, dubbed the Contra War, that took place from 1981-1989.

The wide brimmed hats of the Sandinistas and the Red Star worn by Che Guevara remain symbols of resistance throughout South America and the world. A screenprint of similar ilk produced by Montoya in 1979 was published in November, 2016, in a New York Times article on the art of Fidel Castro's revolution.