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“La chica de la ventana” (The Girl in the Window) by Abraham Ángel (Mexican) - Oil on cardboard / 1923 - Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City, México) #WomenInArt #AbrahamÁngel #AbrahamAngel #Ángel #MuseoDeArteModerno #art #artText #arte #MexicanArt #MexicanArtist #MexicanModernism #PortraitofaWoman
Painted in 1923 by Mexican artist Abraham Ángel, this oil painting places modern femininity at a threshold between inside and outside as well as tradition and change. A young woman with warm coffee-toned skin sits with quiet self-assurance. Her eyes look intently sideways to our right ... steady, alert, and unflinching. She has short, neatly bob-styled dark hair, and her features are simplified with clear outlines and smooth planes of color. Small earrings frame her face, and a long necklace drops to her chest, adding a deliberate sense of personal style. She wears a patterned dress with short sleeves. The fabric is a bright, warm peach tone punctuated by small repeating marks. Her hands rest together at her lap, one gently crossing the other, creating a composed, calm gesture. Behind her, a large window divided into panes becomes a second “portrait” with sky and landscape like panels in a story. Beyond the glass, hills rise in simplified curves, a pale road or river cuts through the scene, and small houses and trees appear in tidy, flattened shapes. The space feels both domestic and expansive. The woman’s cropped hair, direct stare, and fashionable dress align with a decade when more women in Mexico were seeking education and work beyond the home. The portrait doesn’t sentimentalize that shift, it embodies it. The window operates as a social frame: she is presented as someone who belongs to public life even while seated in a private setting. In choosing to center women who could be read as defying expectations, Ángel may also be signaling his own relationship to social norms when he was living semi-openly with Manuel Rodríguez Lozano while building a bold, personal style shaped by the era’s avant-garde circles. The humble support (cardboard) and the crisp, flattened forms strengthen the sense of immediacy. This is not a distant academic ideal, but a contemporary person. She is watching, present, and fully allowed to look elsewhere.
February 4, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Un prodigio que pintó la nueva mexicanidad con colores intensos y mirada seductora, antes de desvanecerse en la tragedia...🖼
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Valdés 🎂👨🏻‍🎨🇲🇽
nace el #07Marzo de 1905
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Abraham Ángel. El cadete, 1923 Abraham Ángel. La mulita, 1923
March 7, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Abraham Ángel Card 👨🏻‍🎨🇲🇽
fallece #27Octubre de 1924🙏🏻
A sus 19 años, sus retratos con colorido vibrante y miradas cautivadoras, revolucionaron el arte Rivera dijo “Nada en su vida fue feo, y la pintura era su vida 🖼
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October 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Abraham Ángel Card Valdés 🎂👨🏻‍🎨🇲🇽, nace el #07Marzo de 1905. En su obra resalta un colorido vibrante y miradas cautivadoras 🖼
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March 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@dallasmuseumart Despite his work sometimes being overshadowed by his tragic death, Ángel’s compelling paintings cemented his status as a pivotal figure in the history of modern Mexican art.

The Family / La familia, 1924. #AbrahamÁngel. Oil on cardboard. Museo de Arte Moderno.

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September 11, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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September 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM