Sexual Fables

This article accompanies the fable
A Tale of Two Women


José Clemente Orozco's Painting of Cortés and Malinche as Adam and Eve. Is the figure beneath them Mexico? It is hard to see this as anything other than a negative image. Then compare this with his other brutal painting, Hernán Cortés, at bottom.

José Clemente Orozco's Painting of Cortés and Malinche as Adam and Eve. Is the figure beneath them Mexico? It is hard to see this as anything other than a negative image.

 

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