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How did Armando Morales refer to Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution in Farewell to Sandino?
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Detail from Popular History of Mexico, mosaic mural by Diego Rivera, 1953; on the Teatro des los Insurgentes, Mexico City.
In his 1985 painting Farewell to Sandino, the Nicaraguan-born artist Armando Morales refers to the political revolution in his homeland by commemorating its 1930s precursors.1
Rather than depicting the contemporary conflict directly, Morales utilizes a classical composition style, arranging the figures as a sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation of the saints"). The faces of these figures are de-emphasized through techniques of blurring and shading, grounding the work in a historical and symbolic context that honors the roots of the movement that eventually brought the Sandinistas to power in 1979.1