Title: Chicano art movement - Wikipedia
Headings: Chicano art movement
Chicano art movement
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Chicano movement
Chicano art as activism
Chicano art as community-based
Chicano art as identity and cultural affirmation
Chicano art as life in the barrio
Important exhibitions and collections
Chicano cultural centers
Museums and galleries focusing on Chicano art
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Content: The murals depicted the lives of native Mexicans and their struggles against the oppression of the United States, as well as, native problems to Mexico's poverty and farming industry. Many of the images and symbols embodied in these classic Mexican graffiti murals were later adopted by the Chicano Movement to reaffirm and unify their collective under a specific light of activism. Chicano art as activism
Section of mural by José Clemente Orozco at Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. This is about 1/4 of the total mural. “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán understood art as a vehicle of the movement and of revolutionary culture”. Although the Chicano movement dissolved, Chicano art continued as an activist endeavor, challenging the social constructions of racial/ethnic discrimination, citizenship and nationality, labor exploitation, and traditional gender roles in effort to create social change. As Fields further explains, “Linked to its constitutive phased with the Chicano movement, or Movimiento, of the 1960s and 1970s, Chicano/a art a