Mexican Revolution Analysis

Mexico was home to rich landowners that ruled like medieval Dukes on large domains, keeping their workforces impoverished, deep in debt, and with barely enough basic necessities for survival. The sheer destruction wrought by ten years of war and chaos has proven to be a deep well of inspiration for Mexico's artists and writers that will be analyzed through the following investigation question. How was the Mexican Revolution the principle cause for the rise of different artistic movements in the first quarter of the 20th century? The inner search for national identity established conflicts prior to this event, therefore in order to execute a thorough analysis, research will emphasize on contextual information starting in the year of 1910 up until 1920. Ideals of the Mexican Revolution, forms of cultural expression dealing with the Mexican Revolution, and how the conflict gave birth to a variety of new artistic currents will be investigated through the use of credible websites, academic journals, and books that provide original research and firsthand experience.

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Part B: Summary of Evidence

National Identity Conflicts Prior to the Mexican Revolution

Middle-class protest against the long-standing dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Established a radical system in which elections were controlled while a handful of dominant families and their clients monopolized financial and political power in the provinces.1

Díaz dictatorship oversaw the broadest and most rapid period of economic expansion and change in Mexican history. Led to the mass dispossession of the lands and traditional rights.2

Young men were subject to the feared recruitment into the national army.3

The lack of democracy in Mex...

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...the new artistic currents having been developed. Although the source lacks authenticity as it was not created by or in Mexican awareness it did provide recognition of national identity through an unbiased perspective. For example it state that mural paintings defined the nation’s uniqueness and recognized Mexico’s indigenous origin and the suffering of the natives in the hands of the Spanish conquerors while still recognizing Mexico’s collective history and culture.

Another researcher might scrutinize the Mexican Revolution and say that Mexico is a nation persistently marked by change due to frequent conflict however the revolution was not only essential to the evolution of human rights and equality within Mexico but to an extent it laid the groundwork’s for a successful implementation of artistic movements that did not have to adhere to an authority blueprint.