Pre-Columbian and contemporary Chicano represents the birth, the growth and becoming popular of wall murals. There are differences and similarities about topic, purpose, and location of the wall murals between the two periods. Pre-Columbian has the existence of two civilizations, Aztec and Mayan. They succeeded in the art of architecture. One of the achievements that most people admire is the Pyramid. They carved stone to build the corbel arch. Also, in the arts, they also own skull masks. Similar to the South African culture that I have learned, Aztec and Mayan created Pyramid, skull masks to be a way to contact with the spiritual world. Besides the admirable art relates to the spiritual world, civilization Aztec also creates Aztec Calendar …show more content…
When someone mentions contemporary Chicano period, we think directly to Mexican murals because it's closer to us. Like the pre-Columbian, contemporary Chicano artists also like to use the image of the skull. However, instead of using it as a symbol relate to the spiritual, the artists use it as an image to represent them in the reality. For example, Posada painted Calavera Catrina as "she stands for the soul of Mexico with the European hat indicating the degree of change that Diaz has created in making Mexico more like Europe"(review PowerPoint). If most the pre-Columbian mural has the historical theme, then most of the contemporary murals have the social and political themes. They represent the issues, which is happening in the present; they give us the message about what we should concern. The artists also use mural to support the equity war without using violence. For example, "Carlos Almarez and helpers paint the mural on the side wall of a supermarket in LA to support the field workers' strike"; "Ester Hernandez makes a poster to support the farm workers' strike using the Calavera, updated!"(review PowerPoint). The purpose of the murals is sending the messages to the community. It is a way to communicate among the human. But the locations of those murals are in public, outside the buildings, where many people can see. This creates the difference between the two periods. The scope of communicating of the murals to the community during this period widespread than previous periods. In addition, it is printed on paper thanks to the development of modern technologies. It assists the communication; it sends the message from the murals' idea to the people in society
Chapter eight form the book From Indians To Chicanos by Diego Vigil, talks about the intact and stable social order. There are three subtopics in this chapter the first one is the industrialism and urbanization in classes. The second one is assimilation vs acculturation and the third one is the color of the intergroup that has to do with racism. All these subtopics are important because it was what made the social classes get united or separated.
In the eighteenth Century, Colonial European and Mexican artists were fascinated with the emergence of racial blending within the Spaniard bloodline. Works of art began displaying pieces that portrayed three major groups that inhabited the colony— Indians, Spaniards, Africans and other ethnicities. This new genre of painting was known as Casta painting and portrayed colonial representations of racial intermarriage and their offspring. Traditionally Casta paintings were a pictorial genre that was often commissioned by Spaniards as souvenirs upon their arrival from New Spain (Mexico). And yet, why would such works have so much fascination despite its suggestive theme? It is clear that Casta paintings display interracial groups and couples, but they seem to have a deeper function when it comes to analyzing these works. These paintings demonstrate that casta paintings were created to display racial hierarchies within the era. They depict the domestic life of interracial marriages and systematically categorized through a complete series of individual paintings. It is clear that the fascination of these works reflected the categorizing of new bloodline that have been emerging and displays these characters in a manner that demonstrates the social stereotypes of these people by linking them with their domestic activities and the items that surround them as well. Despite the numerous racial stereotypes that are illustrated in these works, casta paintings construct racial identities through visual representations.
Aztec and Latin American art has only recently gotten the credibility it deserves and it has done become very popular because Aztec and Latin American Art has gradually begin to grow through the mainstream media. Latin American and Aztec art has also found its way into modern art is by targeting the mainstream media through some very powerful trends, such as art, fashion, and graphic designs. These fields have been stricken with what some people call the “Aztec bug.” Everything, from patterns, illustrations, ornaments, shows the Aztec infiltration into modern mainstream media, and it has become an extremely popular trend. Young people all over the world are beginning to wear Aztec patterns on their clothing and footwear.
The pottery was used to eat out of and they could also trade it to other tribes for food or maybe even horses. The Aztecs did feather working and goldworking. They made shields and did art work with the feathers. They held the feathers together with glue made from bat dung.
Cultures had been flourishing thousands of years before the Europeans arrived to the New World. Great empires such as the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas inhabited the vast lands of Central and South America. These three major powers controlled the land before Columbus or Cortez were even born. Although the Pre-Columbian civilizations and the Europeans shared some similar ideas, life was very different in the New World compared with that of Middle Age Europe.
Two of the biggest and greatest civilization in the Americas were the Aztecs and Incas. These two civilization were both said to be conquered by the Spanish, but it wasn’t just the Spanish who conquered them. These two civilizations both fell from a combination of a weak government, lack of technology, new disease introduced by the invaders, and not being prepared for the invaders. For many centuries the Aztec civilization revolved around a ideological, social, and political system in which expansion was the cornerstone. Expansion was the cornerstone of their whole civilization, because their religion requested that a large number of human sacrifices where to be made to the gods.
The term "Chicano" has for decades been used to describe the Mexican American people present in California. Though, these individuals have been very influential to the development of California for much longer than the origin of the term. Rooted in the emergence of Mexican California in the 1800s, Chicanos have contributed greatly to the changes that California has experienced since then and into the twentieth century. At this time, California was at the forefront of social change unlike anything that the state had seen before. As people were entering the state, the population began to see a heightened array of diversity. The widening of race and class polarization gave birth to a new sense of possibility for these ethnic groups. In this, a series of social movements emerged as a stance for change in the way these groups were treated. For the Chicano movement, a symbol of change and new opportunities emerged for Mexican Americans. Throughout California history, the Chicanos embodied the desire to enhance Chicano culture, through identification, politics, and attempts to improve their socio-economic status.
The Olmec, Mayan, and the Aztec Indians were very advanced civilizations for the 14th, 15th, and 16th century. They would used different kinds of resources found around them to create the technology they used to survive. For example the Olmec and the Mayans used cotton to create all kinds of garments, the Mayans also created a number system and their weapons and armor to go to war, the Aztecs adopted an education on how to hunt, how to fight, jewel cutting, metal polishing, song composition, science of the heavens, planing trees and flowers, cooking, cleaning, and many other things. Many cultures were influenced by these three civilizations as they had spread across the world and still use many of their techniques in our everyday lives.
As white settlers poured across the mountains, the Cherokee tried once again to compensate themselves with territory taken by war with a neighboring tribe. This time their intended victim was the Chickasaw, but this was a mistake. Anyone who tried to take something from the Chickasaw regretted it, if he survived. After eleven years of sporadic warfare ended with a major defeat at Chickasaw Oldfields (1769), the Cherokee gave up and began to explore the possibility of new alliances to resist the whites. Both the Cherokee and Creek attended the 1770 and 1771 meetings with the Ohio tribes at Sciota but did not participate in Lord Dunnmore's War (1773-74) because the disputed territory was not theirs. On the eve of the American Revolution, the British government scrambled to appease the colonists and negotiate treaties with the Cherokee ceding land already taken from them by white settlers. To this end, all means, including outright bribery and extortion, were employed: Lochaber Treaty (1770); and the Augusta Treaty (1773) ceding 2 million acres in Georgia to pay for debts to white traders. For the same reasons as the Iroquois cession of Ohio in 1768, the Cherokee tried to protect their homeland from white settlement by selling land they did not really control. In the Watonga Treaty (1774) and the Overhill Cherokee Treaty (Sycamore Shoals) (1775), they sold all of eastern and central Kentucky to the Transylvania Land Company (Henderson Purchase).
Much of the Art and its artists creating the Chicano Art were mostly influenced by the Chicano Art Movement. The Chicano Art was influenced mostly by the Pre-Columbian Art, Post Mexican Revolution ideologies, European Painting techniques, and the social, political, and cultural issues affecting the Mexican American society. The Chicano Art movement was solely created to resist and question the dominant social norms, self-determination, and stereotypes for cultural independence (Simpson, 1980). The Chicano Art Movement, also known as the Chicano Renaissance, widely used art a weapon of their struggle to achieve credible human values. They proclaimed their invention through inventive projects that connected artists, musicians, poets, and dancers into major political fronts of El movimiento. In the mid-1970's, artists who participated in the Chicano Art movement had become producers of visual arts with posters and mural becoming the ubiquitous purveyors of the visual culture of
Through various motifs, themes and mediums, the visual art of the Chicano movement addressed issues of intolerance, racism, marginalization and discrimination. By re-interpreting traditional art of Mexico, accessing the culture of their pre-Columbian ancestors, creating strong local communities, and directly addressing controversial economic and political issues, artists involved in the movement recognized the need for visual imagery that embodied the political efforts of Mexican-American immigrants and citizens who fought and continue to fight for racial and cultural acceptance, recognition and representation.
There are thousands of types of art work all over the world including mural art which is one of the oldest types of art, painted on walls and ceilings that are usually filled with many different colors. Murals show hope, values and memories of the community. Public art is outside of the gallery or museum, public art exist outdoors. It shapes are abstract, realistic, built, etc. Public art is can express community values, and enhance the environment. However, as our evolving culture of technology increase, more of those mural art, and public art are vanishing in the eyes of the people.
Throughout the worlds history, many forms of folk art have been established. One easily identifiable is that of the Mexican folk art. Mexican folk art has great range and variety. This is primarily because the difference in available materials spread throughout the land. There are over a hundred types of clay, different woods and metals, and even a vast array of vegetable fibers used in textile work that let to a drastic amount of recognizable differences in the art. Artists used a large variety of animal, mineral, and vegetable products to dye and paint their pieces. There is also a very different stylization based on geographic locations and split of communities. This is due to the settling of invading Mesoamerican culture mixed with the Spanish and Arabic cultures. Although there is a vast amount of traditional folk art products from Mexico, pottery, wood burning, glass blowing, and paper mache are staples of the Mexican folk art culture. When Mexico ...
Introduction to Chicano Studies or Chicano Studies 1A is an introductory course at UC Santa Barbara on the historical development of Chicano people that covers topics ranging from the Aztec Society to the contemporary Latino Generation. The class includes a lecture, with 500 students, and is taught by Professor Mario T. Garcia. It is held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 to 3:15 PM in Isla Vista Theater 1. There is also a mandatory section which is taught by a teacher’s assistant. The section is 50 minutes long, and in my case led by Sarah Latanyshyn on Friday afternoons in Girvetz Hall.
Another form of expression and bringing awareness was through the way of art. The style of art and representation solely raised from the Chicano movement. Murals played a big part in the activism and progression people wanted to see. Most, if not all murals represented native Mexicans and their struggles of being oppressed. All murals told a story whether it was Mexico’s poverty or the farming industry. Many popular symbols and images were used again in the Chica...