Nothing less than the desire for worldwide socialist revolution motivated the artists of the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Some of the mid-20th-century’s most influential and revolutionary artists participated in the Taller, towering influencers like the muralist Diego Rivera. Taller artists didn’t just create art. They literally fought fascism in the 1940s and organized and engaged in efforts to build cross-border solidarity and support. We offer here a tiny sampling of their work.

From People’s Graphic Workshop, Prints of the Mexican Revolution: 85 engravings by the artists of the Taller de Grafica Popular. Mexico: Mexican Prints, 1947.

This David Alfaro Siqueiros portrait of Leopoldo Mendez, a co-founder of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and its leader for 25 years, rests on the outer wall of the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros in México City.

To Strengthen the Alliance of Workers
and Peasants. 
The Guatemalan Workers Party.  For land, national independence, and peace. June 17, 1952-1953

Charles White, an African American printmaker, produced this lithograph entitled Black Sorrow at the Taller in 1946.

At the Taller in 1975, US artist
Rini Templeton created Año de Mujer:
Viva la Alianza Obrera-Campesina-Estudiantil.
The Year of the Woman: Long live the Alliance
of Worker-Peasant-Student.
Published by TGP.