Title: Mexican muralism - Wikipedia
Headings: Mexican muralism
Mexican muralism
Contents
Antecedents
Mural movement
After the mural project at the National Preparatory High School
Artistry
Los Tres Grandes (The Three Great Ones)
El Cuarto Grande (The Fourth Great One)
" Nacimiento de Nuestra Nacionalidad " (The Birth of Our Nationality)
Revolutionary artistry
Political expression
Influence
Women of Mexican muralism
Aurora Reyes Flores, first woman muralist
Elena Huerta Muzquiz, artist of the biggest mural created by a woman in Mexico
Rina Lazo, Rivera's assistant for 10 years until his death, his "right hand"
See also
Further reading
References
External links

Content: This government was the first to push for the cultural development of the country, supporting the Academy of San Carlos and sending promising artists abroad to study. However, this effort left out indigenous culture and people, with the aim of making Mexico like Europe. Gerardo Murillo, also known as Dr. Atl, is considered to be the first modern Mexican muralist with the idea that Mexican art should reflect Mexican life. Academy training and the government had only promoted imitations of European art. Atl and other early muralists pressured the Diaz government to allow them to paint on building walls to escape this formalism. Atl also organized an independent exhibition of native Mexican artists promoting many indigenous and national themes along with color schemes that would later appear in mural painting. The first modern Mexican mural, painted by Atl, was a series of female nudes using "Atlcolor", a substance Atl invented himself, very shortly before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Another influence on the young artists of the late Porfirian period was the graphic work of José Guadalupe Posada, who mocked European styles and created cartoons with social and political criticism. Critiquing the political policies of the Díaz dictatorship through art was popularized by Posada. Posada influenced muralists to embrace and continue criticizing the Díaz dictatorship in their works.