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Nahum B. Zenil is an artist who has always used himself in his works usually dealing with mestizaje and homosexuality. With All Due Respect has Frida Kahlo painting references of The Two Fridas and The Bus. There is not a variety of colors in this work. We can see that Frida is not the same warm yellow color the rest of the print has. Frida has no color except the heart. The man that has his shoulder around her can only be assumed it is Nahum himself. This warm yellow tone the work has creates a warm, welcoming feeling for Zenil on the bus. The fact that Frida has no color, but has a Tehuana dress on with Zenil’s arm around her shows some acceptance to his identity, but it may show some hesitation as well because she is gray.

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Frida Kahlo, The Bus, 1929. Oil on canvas

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Jose Clemente Orozco’s mural, Hidalgo, has a prominent color of red. This color can be seen surrounding the main subject in the painting who is Father Miguel Hidalgo. He was known as a priest and for leading the Mexican War of Independence. The red that is shown throughout the mural  symbolizes destruction, chaos, and war. The focal point of Hidalgo takes most of the mural’s space, because of this, Miguel Hidalgo is seen as a symbol of hope. At the bottom of the mural is a pile of people that have been killed. They lack any kind of realistic skin color. The people are painted in a blue hue that is almost on the gray scale. This specific color gives them a lifeless look that makes them appear like ghosts.

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Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939. Oil on canvas

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Nahum B. Zenil, With All Due Respect, 1983. Serigraph

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Jose Clemente Orozco, Hidalgo, 1936-1937. Fresco

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Jose Agustín Arrieta's La Sorpresa uses several colors such as blue, black, and brown. Jose Clemente Orozco's Hidalgo uses colors like red and hues of blue that could be almost a gray color. The last painting by Nahum B. Zenil is titled, With All Due Respect, includes warm tones of a few reds and yellow along with a subject in greyscale. Color is an element that is important in art. It amplifies emotion, shows symbolism, it sets the mood, and the setting of the artwork. All uses of colors play a role in each artwork of this mini-exhibition.

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Their skin color is another factor that contributes to the theme. The townspeople appear to have more brown skin than the lady in black. There is the lady in the center that stares at the woman in black. Arrieta shares a representation of mestizaje with these two ladies that begins a conflict between them. We can see another play on color in the dogs at the bottom left of the painting. The black dog represents the lady in black and the white dog represents the lady in white. These dogs symbolize this conflict between the two ladies because of their social status.

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A close up of the two women and the two dogs on the bottom left 

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José Agustín Arrieta, La Sorpresa, 1850. Oil on canvas

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Jose Agustín Arrieta uses specific colors to portray the meaning of his painting. The colors used differentiate  the social status of the people in the painting. For instance, the image above includes a woman and a man in black to the left of the painting. Their attire seems to be more elegant and formal. The rest of the crowd are wearing white clothing, blue rebozos, or something brown. The lady in black looks more elegant and of higher social status while the others wear their everyday clothing.