The Generación de la Ruptura

The Generación de la Ruptura (Rupture Generation) was a group of Mexican artists who, from the 1950s on, broke with the dominance of the nationalist muralist school and sought more personal languages open to international art.

Its most visible figure was José Luis Cuevas (1934–2017), a provocative draftsman famous for his essay “The Cactus Curtain” against the muralists’ monopoly; a museum in Mexico City’s Historic Center bears his name.