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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José Clemente Orozco
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The Creation (1922)
Los Danzantes de Chalma (1922)
The Banquet of the Rich (1923-24)
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"In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY." 8 of 11
"I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form the story of each industry and its division of labor." 9 of 11
"Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible." 10 of 11
"As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford's industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I heard the wonderful symphony, which came from his factories where metals were shaped into tools for men's service. It was a new music, waiting for the composer with genius enough to give it communicable form." 11 of 11
Summary of Mexican Muralism
Originally spawned by the need to promote pride and nationalism in a country rebuilding after revolution, the Mexican Muralist movement brought mural painting back from its staid retirement in the history of ancient peoples as a respected artistic form with a strong social potential. With it, a rich visual language emerged in public spaces as a means to make art accessible to all. It provided an opportunity to educate and inform the common man with its messages of cultural identity, politics, oppression, resistance, progress, and other important issues of the time. It was a fiercely independent movement;