Mexican Revolution

Examples of Mexican Revolution in the following topics:

• Mexican Muralism

  • Mexican muralism can be defined as the mural painting which was used to promote nationalistic ideals as part of efforts to reunify the country under the post Mexican Revolution government.
  • In 1921, after the end of the Mexican Revolution, José Vasconcelos was appointed to head the Secretaría de Educación Pública.
  • At the time, most of the Mexican population was illiterate and the government needed a way to promote the ideals of the Mexican Revolution.
  • Their work defined the movement, creating a mythology around the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican people, and promoted Marxist ideals, which are still influential to this day.
  • The differences among the three have much to do with how each experienced the Mexican Revolution.

• Mexican Painting: Frida Kahlo

  • Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter known especially for her self-portraits, has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.
  • She frequently included the monkey as a symbol in her work, which in Mexican mythology is a symbol of lust.
  • She often combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with iconography that appears to be from a surrealist tendency.
  • Frida Kahlo had a notoriously volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera.
  • It was the first work of a twentieth-century Mexican artist that the Louvre purchased.

• Experiments in Latin America

  • The widely-known Mexican painter Frida Kahlo painted self-portraits and depictions of traditional Mexican culture in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism.
  • Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas is credited with initiating la Ruptura, publishing a paper in 1958 called La Cortina del Nopal ("The Cactus Curtain") which condemned Mexican muralism as being overly political rather than artistic.
  • Two notable artists who frequently employed this technique are Columbian figurative artist Fernando Botero and Mexican painter and collagist Alberto Gironella.

• Fresco

  • The famous Mexican muralists Jose Clemente Orozco Fernando Leal, David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera renewed the art of fresco painting in the 20th century .
  • Their large scale murals established the art movement known as Mexican Muralism.

• Revolution in France

  • During and after the French revolution, the academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, explored new and increasingly impressionist styles of painting with thick brushwork.
  • Before the onset of the French Revolution, the middle of the eighteenth century saw a turn to Neoclassicism in France, that is to say a conscious use of Greek and Roman forms and iconography.
  • The French neoclassical style would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French revolution.
  • David's paintings are representative not only of the break between Rococo and Neoclassicalism, but also the glorification of republican virtues and revolutionary figures throughout the course of the French Revolution.
  • The French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars brought great changes to the arts in France.

• Romanticism

  • Romanticism, fueled by the French Revolution, was a reaction to the scientific rationalism and classicism of the Age of Enlightenment.
  • Though influenced by other artistic and intellectual movements, the ideologies and events of the French Revolution created the primary context from which both Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenment emerged.
  • Upholding the ideals of the Revolution, Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.
  • The Industrial Revolution also had an influence on Romanticism, which was in part an escape from modern realities of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism.

• Modern Chinese Painting

  • The Cultural Revolution was a sociopolitical movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976.
  • One of the stated goals of the Cultural Revolution was to bring an end to the Four Olds—Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas.
  • Traditional themes in art were sidelined the Cultural Revolution, and artists such as Feng Zikai, Shi Lu, and Pan Tianshou were persecuted.
  • Some of the most enduring images of Cultural Revolution come from the poster art.
  • Following the Cultural Revolution, many art schools and professional organizations were reinstated.

• The Mixteca-Puebla Tradition

  • One of the major indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica, today they inhabit the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Puebla in the La Mixteca region.

• Colossal Heads of the Olmec

  • Across the swampy coastal areas of the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco, the Olmec constructed ceremonial centers on raised earth mounds.

• Sculpture of the Aztecs

  • Also known as the Mexican Sun Stone, Stone of the Sun, or Stone of the Five Eras, it is a large monolithic sculpture that was excavated in the Zócalo, Mexico City's main square, on December 17, 1790.