Art movement’s characteristics vary from nation to nation, but painting can be used as a critique of the socio-political reality in a given nation. It is a creative way to communicate with a population about economic, education and social issues. Therefore, The History of Cuernavaca and Morelos: Crossing the Barranca (ravine) Detail (1929-30) Fresco by Diego Rivera is a good example of how an artist uses his creativity to connect with people in relation to Mexican history. Art is an inspired way to share the complexity and challenge of a community. It can be used a way to respond to them likewise. Therefore, the concept of accessibility takes ingenuity. With his deepen knowledge of European and ancient Mexican art, it was not a documentation …show more content…
of the impact of the industrial age, but it illustrated certain significant themes such as birth and death, the necessity of work, and the essential resources of the natural world. By using Rivera painting as my case of study for the importance of community in the arts, this essay will examine Rivera artistic creativity within the context of community, the complexities as well as challenges of making art, which includes and responds to communities. Lastly, it will show how artistic initiatives can be center the concept of accessibility. The word "community" comes from the Old French comuneté, which comes from the Latin communitas.
The value of the word community is a social unit of any size that shares common values, or that is situated in a given geographical area, example in Mexico. The need of creating an official history of Mexico, which can be transmitted to the citizens, was the principle idea of the establishment of the Mexican art mural. It needed a medium that could reach a large amount of poor and illiterate public. It is a group of people who are connected by hard and durable situations that extend beyond through ancestral ties, and who usually define that relationship as important to their social identity and practice. The Mexican muralist began as a government-funded forms of public art—specifically, large-scale wall paintings in civic buildings—in the wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). The Revolution was a massive civil war helmed by a number of factions, which had very specific political and social agendas, to change the hopes and fears of the general population, and the transition of private to federal draining of lakes from villages. The communities may share intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, and risks in common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness. After the Revolution, then, the government took on the very difficult project of transforming a divided Mexico into a coherent nation of Mexicans. Therefore, the public art …show more content…
specifically, a large-scale wall painting in civic building, has demonstrated the artistic initiatives of the center the concept of accessibility to reunite a divided community. Making art that includes and responds to communities was the main subject of Rivera’s paintings. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico on December 8th, 1886, Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, also known as Diego Rivera, was a famous Mexican painter.
At the age of 12, he joined the National School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Europe, with a state scholarship. Upon his return, he exhibited his work in Mexico, and it was a largely successful. To escape the civil war in his country, Rivera travelled to Paris in 1911. The artist leaded a bohemian life between Spain and Paris. His works were exhibited at the Modern Gallery in New York, with particularly Picasso’s. In 1920, he returned to Mexico, where he completed his first mural. After delivering ‘ultra-intellectual’ experiments and embracing the people’s cause, Rivera returned from his studies to Mexico. He quickly evolved a simple language for the adornment of public buildings. Very soon, this style of creation, which included vibrant and vivid colors, becomes his trademark. He was a passionate artist who was devoted his art to civil wars and revolution. He also elaborated on US frescoes, he only worked with themes that he wanted to denounce and were dear to
him.
Raul Ramirez is a very confident, creative student that is in Mr.Ward’s high school english class in The Bronx,New York, who loves to paint. Raul used to paint his sister by bribing her with whatever he could scunge up,but know his girlfriend just sits for him. He knows that painting will not give him much money and tells the readers by saying “People just don’t get it.Even if I never make a dime --which,by the way,ain’t gonna happen--I’d still have to paint.” Raul is also a very shy teenager that wants to be an artist and will be the first person in his family to be a painter if he becomes one. The thing is even though his “brothers” don’t support him--by laughing at him and saying he's loco-- he still wants to paint and says it by saying
In the painting of the Liberation of the Peon, Diego Rivera depicts soldiers cutting down a naked man from a post. At first glance, the soldiers appear to have whipped and beaten the man. Without careful deliberation, viewers could easily interpret the scene this way due to the visible scars on the man’s body. However, through visual clues, viewers of the Liberation of the Peon can infer that this is not the case. In actuality, the soldiers are helping the man down from the post and providing him with a blanket.
In conclusion, through his mural paintings full with complexity and depth, Diego Rivera recreates a new reality for the audience. `Zapata con el caballo de Cortés` is one of his most influential art pieces , significant in the process of understanding The Mexican Revolution
It was demigrated as derivative, imitative of the mainstream Modernism of Western Europe and the United States. At the same time, it was dismissed as essentially hybrid, a fusion of traditions which was weaker than any of its progenitors. In the second of these accusations there is an implication of the racial prejudice which has marked the history of Latin America ever since the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early sixteenth century.” The Latin American art was often disregarded because of the thought of the art being inferior.
For instance from Aztec art one can learn about the rituals they conducted, the type of clothing they wore, the gods they worshiped, and the history of the people. Not only should the Aztec art be preserved for the sake of remembering them, but to show the more creative side of the Aztecs since they are often viewed as violent by most people. Aztec art utilizes many techniques and materials such as feathers and obsidian, in an age when fine art is being taken out of the picture in favor of digital art the Aztec art grasps the public’s attention, and makes fine art relevant
Mexico’s problems originally began upon the arrival of the Spanish in 1492, as illustrated in Major Problems in Mexican American History by Zaragosa Vargas as well as in the video documentary, Chicano!. The sequence of events which date back to the precolonial Spanish days and take place in Mexico’s history eventually provoke the national movement that called for social justice and equality, especially after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Then came the question of group and individual identity. Those of Mexican heritage were broken up into the groups "Chicanos," which were the ‘Americanized’ Mexicans or the Mexicans born in the United States, and the actual "Mexicans," who were the native born people which were discriminated against the most.
Helm, MacKinley. Mexican Painters: Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros and Other Artists of the Social Realist School. New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Print.
Había muchos pintors famosos y artistas que vinieron de España y otros países de habla hispana. En mi opinión, Diego Rivera fue el artista mejor. Él era famoso por sus murales, pinturas temáticas cubismo, y mucho más. Muchas cosas influyeron Rivera en su época de dibujo, como los acontecimientos actuales y su vida social. Él pasó por muchas cosas difíciles como un niño que influyeron en sus decisiones de vida mayores. Rivera viajó mucho y su vida fue muy interesante.
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
Diego Rivera was deemed the finest Mexican painter of the twentieth century; he had a huge influence in art worldwide. Rivera wanted to form his own painting fashion. Although he encountered the works of great masters like Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse, he was still in search of a new form of painting to call his own (Tibol, 1983). His desire was to be capable of reaching a wide audience and express the difficulties of his generation at the same time, and that is exactly what h...
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...
Chicano Park, is an area seventeen miles north of the United States-Mexico border in San Diego County. It was established in 1905 as Logan Heights and became known as Barrio Logan by the large Mexican population that exists in it. This population has a distinguished history that is told in the web site. One may think that this is the history of all Mexican-Americans, but it is not. The effect of certain events that occurred in Mexican-American history on this community and California, such as the Chicano Civil Rights Movement and the Chicano Moratorium march against the Vietnam war, is addressed. The major outcome of these events emphasized by the web site is the influence it had on art in the Mexican-American culture. However, the history and other effects on al...
His first job on graduating in 1938 was art director of the Junior League magazine, later he worked in the same capacity for Saks Fifth Avenue department store. At the age of 25, he quit his job and used his small savings to go to Mexico, where he painted a full year before he convinced himself he would never be more than a mediocre.
The ethnic- Mexican experience has changed over the years as American has progressed through certain period of times, e.g., the modernity and transformation of the southwest in the late 19th and early 20th century, the labor demands and shifting of U.S. immigration policy in the 20th century, and the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. Through these events Mexican Americans have established and shaped their culture, in order, to negotiate these precarious social and historical circumstances. Throughout the ethnic Mexicans cultural history in the United States, conflict and contradiction has played a key role in shaping their modalities of life. Beginning in the late 20th century and early 21st century ethnic Mexicans have come under distress from the force of globalization. Globalization has followed the trends of conflict and contradiction forcing ethnic Mexicans to adjust their culture and combat this force. While Mexican Americans are in the struggle against globalization and the impact it has had on their lives, e.g., unemployment more common, wages below the poverty line, globalization has had a larger impact on their motherland having devastating affects unlike anything in history.
Having realized art as a structured cultural phenomenon, and having emptied its direct and apparent meaning, it is possible to identify all its possible significations. Interestingly enough, I find that art reveals many diametrically opposed significations: expression and oppression, bias and acceptance, individual and society, creativity and confinement, and freedom and convention, among others. Art signifies the de-politicization of our culture, for even the most political of pieces cease to cause a stir among the masses.