Title: Mexican Muralism Movement Overview | TheArtStory
Headings: Mexican Muralism
Mexican Muralism
Mexican Muralism
"The artist must paint as he would speak. I don't want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand."
Summary of Mexican Muralism
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Overview of Mexican Muralism
Key Artists
José Clemente Orozco
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Important Art and Artists of Mexican Muralism
The Creation (1922)
Los Danzantes de Chalma (1922)
The Banquet of the Rich (1923-24)
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Content: Overview of Mexican Muralism
Saying, "The role of the artist is that of a soldier in a revolution," Diego Rivera pioneered Mexican Muralism. He said his portrayals of the revolutionary Zapata and his followers were meant to make "the masses the hero of monumental art." Beginnings and Development
Concepts, Trends, & Related Topics
Later Developments and Legacy
Key Artists
Diego Rivera
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Diego Rivera was the principal actor in the Mexican Muralism movement and one of Mexico's greatest artists. His large-scale fresco cycles tell the histories of labor, industry, society, and other themes. José Clemente Orozco
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José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican Muralist, a social realist painter who is best known for his large-scale expansive works depicting human toil, Mexican politics, and the advent of the industrial age. David Alfaro Siqueiros
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Jose David Alfaro Siquieros was a Mexican social realist painter, an active member of the Mexican Communist Party, and one of three artists - along with Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco - who gave rise to the Mexican Mural Renaissance in the early twentieth century. Siqueiros's large-scale fresco murals are defined by their anti-Fascist politics and near expressionistic aesthetic. Do Not Miss
Social Realism
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Social Realism refers to a style of figurative art with social concerns - generally left-wing. Inspired in part by nineteenth-century Realism, it emerged in various forms in the twentieth century. Political radicalism prompted its emergence in 1930s America, while distaste for abstract art encouraged many in Europe to maintain the style into the 1950s.