Fusilado

Date: 1950

Medium: Linocut

Dimensions (cm.): 30.3 x 41.6

Variants: Méndez created an alternate version of this image.

Alternate titles: El fusilado

Published edition: Unknown

Contemporary publication: End titles in film, Un día de vida

References: Information to be added

Selected additional references (illustrated): Maples Arce 1970, pl. 55.

Commentary: Fusilado, from Un día de vida, corresponds to the moment after the young campesinor’s death and parallels the religious imagery in Fusilamiento. The two women mourn over the body, one of them prostrate with grief, while the other stands enveloped in the white light of the incised lines, holding out her arms in a ceremonial gesture. The image is a secular Pietà, with glowing, flamelike forms that surround the mourners and the dead hero and imbue the scene with an otherworldly sense of sacrifice.  (Deborah Caplow)

Catalogue record number: 135