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Carlos Mérida, Gunther Gerzso and Manuel Felguérez brought a new sensibility to Mexican art as it broke away from the restrictions of the muralists and state sponsorship. The Mexican Revolution (1910 to 1920) challenged the colonialist and top-down patriarchy that influenced Mexican art for many decades, and later La Ruptura (the Rupture, from the late 1950s to the early 1960s) saw a conscious acceleration of change as artists incorporated European art with indigenous symbolism, abandoning nationalism in favor of internationalism and universalism. Many artists led the way including José Luis …