...Arte Mural en México El muralismo es un movimiento artístico iniciado en México a principios del siglo XX. Esto lo creó un grupo de pintores mexicanos después de la Revolución Mexicana, que después se reforzó con la gran depresión y la primera guerra mundial. Querian transformar notoriamente, y empezaron a hacer demandas que llamaran mas la atención, buscando una revolución social, política y económica. Muchos se unieron a Porfirio Diaz. Este periodo revolucionario consistió en una independencia espiritual y cultural de Europa y el orgullo comenzó a ser muy evidente en la literatura, arquitectura, danza, música y arte. Los artistas muralistas pintaban sobre diferentes temas de interés nacional como la mexicanidad o también la critica a los problemas políticos que estaban sucediendo en aquel tiempo. Esta arte no sólo expresaba lo anterior, si no que tanbien expresaba el pasado indígena y también la perspectiva que se le daba al progreso en un futuro en Mexico. El muralismo también personificó a los estilos europeos de aquel tiempo, siendo la figura humana y el color que eran las características mas importantes. Ni el cubismo ni el surrealismo utilizaban este tipo de arte, el muralismo creó su propia esencia regresando al realismo para expresar los probemas políticos. Ejemplos de artistas y sus obras muralistas Frida Khalo: -Conocida como una de las pintoras mas importantes de la historia mexicana. -En su mayoría, sus pinturas son autobiografías. -Frida...
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...Mission Murals mostly because I have never seen them before. I didn’t know what to expect heading down there. When I arrived in Balmy alley I was not disappointed. I was immediately drawn to the very first mural I saw. I knew right then and there I was going to choose this mural. Even though I had yet to see many more murals my mind was set. The mural I chose was “Victorion: El Defendor de la Mision,” by Sirron Norris. I was immediately drawn to Norris’s mural mainly because of his focal point. In the center of his mural is what I believe to be a giant transformer made up of San Francisco Victorian style houses. I was immediately drawn to the transformer or “Victorion” because of its massive size in the mural. Also how the small people are all looking up to it. Norris didn’t use a massive change in value or contrast to draw the viewer’s eyes to Victorion but just its massive scale in the mural. I was also drawn to his cartoon style that he uses in this mural. It was different than all the murals that I saw that day. His style is a little bit surreal but mostly cartoon, which I thought was interesting. The way he created San Francisco in this cartoon style was really cool to look at. He puts recognizable landmarks and elements that are from San Francisco. For example he has Sutro Tower in the back and also has a cable car with wings. With this he is able to connect to community making his mural more attractive. Norris uses a lot of bright colors in his cartoon mural. He also...
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...This project is promoting and welcoming participants as well as project’s members to cooperate well and beautify the existing building at Fakulti Kejuruteraan (FKJ) middle yard. The mural painted is all about nature and environment to increase awareness among FKJ’s student. Whenever they pass by the middle yard, their eyes will focus to environmental mural painting and this will indirectly cultivate their awareness to appreciate nature. Other than that, this mural painting project challenges individual to blend personal ideas with group goals. The mural painting will benefit the project’s members by promoting cooperation and toleration in both planning and execution of the mural project. The ideas and designs of environmental mural produce by project’s members. After that, the execution of project which is mural painting will be done by project’s member and other participants that are willing to join. This project will be held on 14 and 15 November 2015 which are earlier than scheduled Sustainability Week because the project’s members aim for the opening of the week. So, the grand opening will be held at the FKJ’s yard with the mural painting as the background. 2.0 OBJECTIVES i. To beautify as well as maintain the existing building at FKJ’s middle yard by painting with environmental mural. ii. To...
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...Rectangle. Frida used rich colors to express strong feelings. This artwork was made during the Modern Art period. Frida Kahlo was the creator of the “Henry Ford Hospital” (The Flying Bed) 1932 painting. This is one of her most painful self-portraits that she had ever painted. Frida created this artwork of herself during one of her most painful times in her life. She was suffering her second miscarriage, and she was also was also realizing that she would not ever be able to carry a pregnancy to term. She experienced this situation in a foreign city that she did not like, the city of Detroit, Michigan. They were in the city of Detroit because her husband Diego was creating his famous Detroit Industry frescoes (frescoes, is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster) at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In the background of the painting Frida included the Ford family’s factories because they dominated the skyline from the hospitals view. In Henry Ford Hospital Frida lies naked in her bed. Frida has a large tear falls from her left eye. The sheet beneath her is bloody, because she is had a miscarriage. Her stomach is still swollen from pregnancy. The bed frame bears the inscription "Henry Ford Hospital Detroit," but the bed and Frida floats or flies in an abstract space circled by a series of six floating objects around her bed that are symbolic of her emotions at the time of her...
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...Lascaux, near Montignac, France. Unlike the "Hall of the Bulls" the "Bull-leaping" painting is near Eastern and Egyptian art. The painting was created around 1450-1400 BCE. According to Gardner's Art through the Ages only fragments of the full composition survive. The remainder is a modern restoration. The style of this painting is Greek Knossos. This painting represents people and animals. It depicts the sport of bull leaping. The people in the painting are very agile and revealed to be able to master the animal. A Minoan artist created this painting. The Interior of the "Tomb of the Leopards" is a mural painting dated between 480-470 BCE. This kind of art was produced by Etruscans. They decorated their burial chambers with mural paintings. Only the wealthiest families could afford to have this kind of murals in their burial site. This mural displays men and women enjoying a banquet. The men are dark skin while the women are light skin. Pitcher and cup...
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...Mexican muralism was the promotion of mural painting starting in the 1920s generally with social and political messages as a part of efforts to reunify the country under the post revolution government. It was headed by “the big three” painters, Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco and David Siqueiros. Changes in Mexican art went through a more political period and the mural painting relationship between politics and art during the years became very fruitful, partly because Mexican artists formulated much of the theoretical base on which their program for a new public art was erected and partly because in was combined with a quest to rediscover their national identity. Bt the mid 20s Mexican muralist strated to change and the most noteable aspect is the presence of communist propaganda. As a muralist and an artist, Siqueiros believed art should be public, educational and ideological. He painted mostly mural and other portraits of the revolution-its goals, its past and the current oppression of the working classes. Because he was painting a story of human struggle to overcome authoritarian, capitalist rule, he painted the everyday people ideally involved in this struggle. Though his pieces sometimes include landscapes or figures of Mexican history and mythology and these elements often appear as mere accessories to the story of a revolutionary hero or heros. Rivera too joined the Party, but his presence as a militant would be erratic. As both artists got more involved in...
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...The day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. They see death as a friend and also make death humorous; in the film they showed different articles where they even made fun of the president. In the film they also showed famous murals for this occasion such as Diego Rivera’s famous mural dedicated to the day of the dead. Flowers also play a key role on this day; many people use yellow flowers, they say the yellow flowers have the smell of death. Before the event the women prepare food to take to the cemetery for their loved ones that are gone, many believe they come back to cemetery on this day. On November 1st , they light thousands of candles and incenses to help guide the dead to the cemetery. At midnight the dead are supposed to be there. The Day of the Dead, is celebrated during the same time frame as Halloween. Both events are centered on tradition rooted in paying respect to the dead. Though mostly different, a few characteristics of both holidays make them similar. Both Halloween and the Day of the Dead use food as part of the celebration. Halloween involves trick or treating where children knock on doors to receive candy, sweets and treats. Though food is also used during the Day of the Dead, the food is placed on alters at the grave sites of those being remembered during the holiday...
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...1 Kerala Mural Paintings Kerala: An Introduction According to mythology, Parasurama an incarnation of Vishnu, weary of long years of war and bloodshed decided to undertake a penance in the Western Ghats. Varuna, the God of water responded to his prayers and granted him a boon. Parasurama was asked to throw his axe and the area and distance covered by the axe would be his. Known for his strength and valour, Parasurama swung his axe with such power and might that it reached Kanyakumari. This strip of land covered by the axe came to be known as Kerala. Another creation myth narrates how Varuna raised lands from beneath the ocean and formed the region called Kerala. Politically a merging of three regions in 1956 Travancore, Cochin and Malabar, formed the state. In Sanskrit Kerala means, Land added on which is both mythically and geologically true of the origin of Kerala. Another opinion is that the name is derived from Kera, which means coconut in Malayalam. But there are also theories about the absence of coconut in Kerala, at that time. A more convincing view can be traced back to the Chera Dynasty. The Chera kings were referred to as Cheralan and Cheralatan. The Sanskrit word for Chera is Kera and alam means country. Thus the name Kerala or Keralam may have meant the country of the Cheras. Whatever the origin story may be, Kerala is truly Gods own country, as it is popularly known. Situated on the southwestern coast of the Indian sub continent, it has the Western Ghats...
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...1922, Siqueiros returned to Mexico City to work as a muralist for Álvaro Obregón’s revolutionary government. Then Secretary of Public Education José Vasconcelos made a mission of educating the masses through public art and hired scores of artists and writers to build a modern Mexican culture. Siqueiros, Rivera and José Orozco worked together under Vasconcelos, who supported the muralist movement by commissioning murals for prominent buildings in Mexico City. Still, the artists working at the Preparatoria realized that many of their early works lacked the "public" nature envisioned in their ideology. In 1923 Siqueiros helped found the Syndicate of Revolutionary Mexican Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, which addressed the problem of widespread public access through its union paper, El Machete. That year the paper published – "for the proletariat of the world" – a manifesto, which Siqueiros helped author, on the necessity of a "collective" art, which would serve as "ideological propaganda" to educate the masses and overcome bourgeois, individualist art. Siqueiros hoped to create a style that would bridge national and universal art. In his work as well as his writing, Siqueiros sought a social realism that at once hailed the proletariat peoples of Mexico and the world while avoiding the clichés of trendy "Primitivism" and "Indianism" 1932 at the Italian Hall at Olvera Street in Los Angeles.[11] Painting fresco on an outside wall – visible to passersby as well as intentional viewers...
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...Jane Golden, Artist Contemporary Mural Painting Movement Jane Golden, artist and a mural painter became interested in the Anti-Graffiti Network Program established in Philadelphia, Pa. by the former Mayor Wilson Goode in the 1980s. Ms. Golden was given the task to establish an arts program to help turn young offender’s destructive energies into creative ones. In 1966, the project became the Mural Arts Program and under her direction, over 3,000 interior and exterior murals have been created with collaboration with community based organizations, city agencies, non-profits, schools, private sector and philanthropies. In 2003, Jane Golden received a Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design. Eisenhower Fellowships selected Jane Golden as a USA Eisenhower Fellow in 2003. She is an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her movement to the Philadelphia area, Ms. Golden is a graduate of Stanford University, CA. She moved to Los Angeles, CA. and created a number of murals on the beach areas. She is the co-founder and Director of the Los Angeles Public Art Foundation. She received awards such as the Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design. Eisenhower Fellowships selected Jane Golden as a USA Eisenhower Fellow in 2003. Urban graffiti was a major influence in establishing programs such as this that would combat the plague of the phenomenon of its social and cultural...
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...Pan American Essay The first time that I viewed the Pan-American mural by Diego Rivera was during our class orientation. I was amazed by the size of the painting and also by the amazing detail and colors that he was able to depict. Rivera used many metaphors and symbolisms of different leaders and events that took place during the Mexican Revolution. I believe that his overall purpose was to show his viewers in future what they went through as a culture. He is showing a timeline of the events that took place in different parts of Bay Area, which is good because it helps us become more in touch with the painting. I will start by analyzing the left side of the painting and will continue going down the line from there. On the top left section of panel 1, I see what appears to be Mexican immigrant workers who are building sculptures, some are painting and others look like they are praying IMMIGRANTS? ISN’T THIS A VISION OF PRE-COLOMBIAN MEXICO?. I think that this represents the way that the rich people forced the Mexicans to work for little or no pay only because they were undocumented and so it is easy to take advantage of them I THINK YOU MISINTERPRETED THIS PANEL. On the left bottom corner I see a man in a cloak with an eagle next to him NEZAHUALCOATL, AN AZTEC INVENTOR AND POET. I also see men and women who look as though they are cooking fool in a small dark room SEMLTING GOLD?. I think that those images represent the poverty that they had to endure...
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...ART 110 – Art Appreciation Assignment #2 – Research an Artist The Early Life of the Artist 1. When was the artist born? Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886. (Wiki) 2. Where was the artist born? Rivera was born into a well off family in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Wiki) 3. Note any information you were able to find on the parents of the artist. Rivera’s maternal linage stemmed from Jews who had converted to Roman Catholicism. His father’s side came from Spanish nobility. (Wiki) 4. Did the artist have any brothers or sisters? Rivera was born with a twin brother, Jose Carlos, who died before he was two years old. He also had a sister, Maria del Pilar Rivera, who was 4-5 years younger than he was. (diegorivera.com) 5. What were some of the significant childhood experiences in the early life of the artist? Rivera enrolled in his first art classes at ten years old. By thirteen, his father forces him into military college, but after only two short weeks he is allowed to enroll in regular classes in San Carlos. (diegorivera.com) 6. Note any information on the education of the artist. At the age of twenty, Rivera received a four year scholarship for European study and begins training under Spanish realist Eduardo Chicharro. (diegorivera.com) 7. What was the artist’s early career like? Was it as an artist or was it in another field? By age eighteen, Diego was painting both figures and landscapes, similar to...
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...It feels like it’s been forever since I last wrote you! We have a lot to catch up on since I moved to Mexico two months ago. I know you don’t like long, boring letters, so I’ll try to stick to the basics. There are a lot of unique landforms here. We live kind of on the Southern Pacific coast, around the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range. Them along with the ocean make for a beautiful view to wake up to every morning. Plus, they’re way way way bigger in person! Remember when we used to draw pictures of mountains as kids? Well, our proportions were way off because in real life, they’re absolutely ginormous! But besides the mountains, the land is really good for farming. There are a few plantations and latifundios in this area that sell lots of cash crops. But only a couple hours away from where we live, there are more family and community owned farms like ejidos....
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...On November 7, 2016 a few friends and I dined at Taqueria El Porton located in downtown Bloomington off of Main Street. Taqueria El Porton is an authentic Mexican restaurant in Central Illinois. It opened in August of 2002 hoping to provide a different “authentic” experience for customers. Although “Taqueria” means taco shop, they offer much more than just tacos. The owners of the restaurant are Adolfo and Constantina Navarrete. Adolfo envisioned this restaurant growing up on his ranch just outside of Palmar Chico, Mexico. He learned everything to know about cooking from his father who was a butcher and cook himself. Adolfo’s favorite dinners that he wanted to share are Carnitas and Barbacoa. Adolfo and Constantina opened this restaurant thriving to share their home cooked recipes with the rest of the community....
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...With the ongoing border problems between United States and Mexico, and the increasing number of illegal Mexican immigrants, I chose to write my class report on Mexico. I live in a small community in South Carolina. My town seems to attract illegal Mexican workers. I believe because of the textile, and farming industries, and the low cost of housing it attracts many migrant workers. I work with several illegal Mexicans, and some of those I have become friends with over time. Because of this I have taken a personal interest in the Hispanic country of Mexico. I enrolled in the conversational Spanish class so I am better able to communicate with my new friends. I believe I am one of the very few in my community that accepts the immigrants. I feel as long as they are good respectful people, they should be allowed to stay and work here. I hope our Government can figure a way for the law abiding citizens of Mexico to be able to work here legally as long as they are able to pay taxes and follow the same rules as we do. According to researchers, Mexico has been around for thousands of years. Thanks to modern technology, the Carbon 14 test on a human corpse found in Mexico dates back to approximately 10,000 years B.C. And agriculture can be traced as far back as 3,000 years B.C. Many types of people made up the Mexican culture, but they coexisted in harmony. They shared the same Government structure, and had similar religious beliefs. There are six main types of...
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