Powerful images from an angry age

Crying. Fear. Anger.

The titles bleed from the small plaques below the graphic paintings of Oswaldo Guayasamin, now on display in an expansive show at Beijing's Capital Museum. The titles are almost unnecessary: The emotions in his work are so raw - the eyes of his subjects so magnetic - that the artist's messages hardly need titles or translation.

"My paint is intended to hurt, scratch and hit people's hearts," the late Ecuadorean artist said, "to show that which Man perpetrates against Man."