Mexican populist art production from the 1920s to the 1950s is often grouped under the name of "Escuela Mexicana de Pintura (y Escultura) (Mexican School of Painting and Sculpture), coined in the 1930s by art historians and critics.
The murals took on monumental status because of where they were situated, mostly on the walls of colonial era government buildings and the themes that were painted [REF].