...At the Norton Simon Museum of Art, in Pasadena California, I was able to see Diego Rivera’s “The Flower Girl (Girl with Lilies)” on display. This painting was located in the “20th Century Galleries” section of the museum. All of the works in that are located in this section of the museum are considered modern art. The wall text gives a brief history of Diego Rivera’s life and describes what is being depicted in the painting, “Rivera entered art school at a very young age and moved to Europe in 1907. There he was deeply affected by the great Italian muralists and contemporary French painters. Returning home in 1921, he became a painter of murals, and over the next several years the direction of Mexican art changed dramatically under his leadership....
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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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...January 20, 1903 in Iowa. This information can be located on http://www.sullivangoss.com/maxine_Albro/. Additional information can also be found on http://sfart.info/details/Albro-Maxine-Coit-Tower-Murals-Telegraph-Hill-San-Francisco-USA.html Maxine Albro did not have one specific media, she had several. She was a sculptor, lithographer, muralist and a painter. Although she did not have a specific media, she was mostly known for the way she displayed the frescos and characteristic treatments of her art when it came to Spanish and Mexican subject matter. A mural titled California Agriculture can be seen at Coit Tower in San Francisco, California and a Bavarian themed mural at the Hofsas House Hotel in Carmel by the Sea, California. Maxine Albro education as an artist began in San Francisco, CA....
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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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...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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...Rivera’s style is best termed as New Realism because it is far removed from the academic, Old World naturalism (Neimark 68). “He adopted a symbolic-representational style and a large scale mural format. The densely packed murals are almost montages of fragmentary figures and symbolic elements located within fictive spaces” (Neimark 69). The figures may have been simplified, but there is nothing simple about his complex compositions that are overwhelming to the eye, both visually and in terms of their social impact on society at the time (Neimark 69). Rivera’s murals at the Detriot Institute of Arts were painted with the 15th century Italian style technique called fresco, which is a method of applying paint directly to a wet plaster surface so that the work is permanently scarred onto the wall (Howlett 6). The project, designed to show the progress of man throughout time, fit perfect into Rivera’s style of a montage-like mural form. The murals received more than 86,000 visitors in the first month of its debut alone (Helms 85). At the end of the decade, Rivera was awarded the Fine Arts Gold Medal by the American Institution of Architects for Rivera’s growing work in the United States (Helms 70). However, happiness of receiving this award was short lived – in 1930, the conservative administration of the National School of Architecture and others had started a campaign for Rivera’s removal as director of the Academy of San Carlos, the same school he started out at as a young painter...
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...who had ruled the country for decades (Kennicott). With the revolt against the government many social changes began to occur. Women had a role in started to have a level of importance in society, which was very uncommon for the time. (Macias). Additionally, people started to paint murals to illustrate this time of disagreement (Kennicott). However, the art would be interpreted in a way that was unintended, and it would lead to negative emotions for the people....
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...Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles influenced social politics during the 19th century by writing about the change brought about by the Industrial Revolution in a series of books. Together, they developed a theory for explaining social change and political revolution (Richards & Saba, no date). Marxism gave identity to political revolutions, early revolutions were started by capitalists against feudalism and later, during the Industrial Revolution, the working class against capitalists. The philosophy of Marxism is materialism in science and logic and provided theoretical and practical advances in traditional thinking. Not only did Marxism change political thinking, it also changed the style in which artists of the time could express themselves....
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...place because the Mexican art can be seen as soon as you enter the town. There is also a sense of community...
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...ESL 160 17th Sept, 09 “Pan-American Unity” mural, which is located in the City College of San Francisco’s Diego Rivera Theater, is about two stories high and as wide as the building. On the right bottom corner, I can see the artist’s signature, Diego Rivera, and the established date--1940. The mural has divided into six panels. There are many people in different groups doing different activities. After the observation of the mural, l find out something that can be represented the Diego Rivera’s talent, interest, and character. As a artist, Diego has a great talent to express his wish in art. In the middle of the mural, a black man who wears a blue shirt and a white woman who wears a write dress are holding each other’s hands to plant a tree, and a black girl and a white boy are staying next to them. The black man and the black girl are represented the black culture; on the other hand, the white woman and the white boy are symbolized the white culture. In addition, the tree held by the black man and the white woman means the life and love between the black and the white cultures. I think what the artist wants to say is that he hopes not only the black and the white can try their best to keep a peaceful relationship, but their next generations can also follow this concept. Diego also obviously shows he is interested in technical innovation. In both side of the mural, even though there are geographical, cultural and technological differences, both different...
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...Judith F. Baca is a muralist, painter, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Baca is a second generation Chicana born of Mexican parents. Strongly identifying with her roots, Baca’s public art initiatives discuss those populations that have been historically marginalized, such as immigrant communities. The piece above titled Memoria de Nuestra Tierra, is 10 by 50-foot mural located in the Denver International Airport. The mural showcases a Mexican family traveling along the Juarez-El Paso towards the north. Baca states that the mural has sentimental value to her since she created it basing it off of her own background. “My grandparents […] followed the course traveled by thousands of other Mexican families. It’s a story...
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...Crystal Huizar Hum 123 SA9- Paper #1 9/15/2012 Woman Grinding Maize – Diego Rivera One of my favorite art works is La Molendera, or The Woman Grinding Maize, by Diego Rivera. The medium of this painting is oil paint on a horizontal canvas that measures 106.7 x 121.9 cm. When I first see this painting, the woman dressed in white with her hair split in two braids, grinding maize on a stone, is what stands out to me the most. It is traditional for women in Mexico that make tortillas to grind the maize, corn, on a rock. In the background I see three already made tortillas baking on top of a ceramic dish. The colors used in the atmosphere are cool toned, which gives you a sense of calm and a soothing sensation. The main colors used here are blue, gray and brown; the only white that was used was for the woman in the picture. I think the reason why Rivera used white for the woman’s dress was to draw attention directly to her and the work she is doing. There is a lot of roundness in the painting. For example, the skillet where the tortillas are heating is round, the stone grinder is oval, and the woman’s arms and body are also round. Overall, Rivera synchronized all the objects in this painting to the same size, everything is painted is bold and big. He had a great sense of color and an enormous talent for structuring his work. Diego Rivera, the creator of this painting, was Mexican and was married to another famous artist, Frida Kahlo. A lot of Rivera’s later work was influenced...
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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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...Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy and Leonor Fini to name a few. From the influence of artist around her, she created her first surrealist painting. This piece was a self-portrait called the inn of the Dawn Horse. Depicting herself with a mane of wild hair and a hyena by her feet with a horse galloping out of the window. This would be a recurring theme in her art work which can relate to her love of animals. She then moved with Ernst to Saint-Martin Ardeche where she wrote surrealist literature, such as ‘The house of fear’ (1938), ‘The oval lady’ (1938) and ‘The Debutante’ (1940). With the outbreak of the World War...
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...In 1973 a group called the Los Four was formed and consisted of Frank Romero, Roberto de la Rocha, Gilbert Lujan and Carlos Almaraz formed an art group called the Los Four. Romero has been an artist for 40 years. He has painted 15 murals in the city of Los Angeles. His artwork has been featured in The National Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museum. One of his weavings was pound blanket from Peru. A pound blanket is heavy blanket that keeps you warm. Its bright colors consisted of pink, green, white, and orange. Tiny white triangles surrounded the outside of the blanket. Green leaves surround the diamond on the outside drawing your eyes to the next item on the blanket. The use of the diamonds draws your attention to the inside of shape were an orange Navajo star catches your attention. Another one of his weavings was blanket from Mexico. Out of all the weavings this one had a symbolic meaning to it. This blanket had three people holding corn. Unlike most of the weavings this blanket was meant to please the crop god. In return allowed the people to have a good...
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