Rocio Caballero: A Visual Analysis

Art allow people to send awareness of problems that have been easily rejected by justice. The second art Museum that I attended this semester was the National Museum of Mexican art. I was very excited to attend this museum because after seeing the Art Institute for the first time I felt in love with art. When I arrive at the museum I enter the first exhibit as my friend and I were talking around the corner one beautiful painting caught my attention. The name of the art piece was Los Sueños Rotos (Broken Dreams) by Rocio Caballero. This painting stood out to because of how realistic this painting looked. I told my friend that this painting was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, my friend also liked it.
Rocio Caballero is a figurative painter who was born in Mexico in 1964. The majority of Caballero’s art consists of mythical worlds and symbolical events. According to Caballero, “I have always been much against the battle of the sexes; I like to look at the world and all artists as individual. My surname is a game that is like very much to play. I am a “Caballero” (gentleman in Spanish) and I paint as one. For many years, and
For about twenty-two years now, women in the city of Juarez have been struggling with the violence that is happening around them. Women who live in this city have to live their lives with the fear of one day being sexually abused and killed by criminals. The political meaning behind this piece is that by giving awareness to this cause the artist can help support the cause of the victims who’s crimes have not been resolve. This also helps give the families of the victim some comfort because the artist is sending the message that people should be aware of the injustices that are happening around them and to help support this cause because only then these families can grieve in