The Mexican Mural Renaissance and the United States Helen Delpar, Ch.4 “The Mexican Art Invasion”
Guadalajara, Restoration in 2002 of a 1923 Mural
Jose Vasconcelos
Orozco, Materinity,
Rivera, Creation,
Orozco, The Farewell,
Orozco, The Trench,
Orozco, The Family,
Secretaria de Educacion Publica
Rivera, The Arsenal,
Rivera, US Bankers Control Mexico,
Rivera, Chapingo
Rivera, Chapel at Chapingo,
Chapingo
Chapingo (Modotti)
Cortes Palace, Conquest,
Rivera, Colonial Mexico
Rivera, Zapata,
Rivera, National Palace,
Interpretations of the Mural Rennaissance Anita Brenner in Idols behind Altars (1929) Anita Brenner in Idols behind Altars (1929) Leonard Folgarait, in Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, Leonard Folgarait, in Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, Jean Charlot, in The Mexican Mural Renaissance: , Jean Charlot, in The Mexican Mural Renaissance: , Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralism Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralism,
Factors in the growth of the Muralist movement I) Existing traditions of “history painting” and muralism Stacie Widdifield, The Embodiment of the National in Late 19 th C Mexican painting, (1996) 2) Mexico’s Academic tradition 3) The Revolution Adolfo Best-Maugard Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl = Dr Water) Las Artes Populares de Mexico (1922) 4) Cosmopolitanism Diego Rivera Roberto Montenegro 5) US Market 6) Competition among the muralists
Rivera in New York, 1932
Thomas Hart Benson “I saw in the Mexican effort a profound and much-needed redirection of art towards its ancient humanistic foundations. The Mexican concern with publicly significant meanings and with the pageant of Mexican national life corresponded perfectly with what I had in mind for art in the United States. I also looked with envy on the opportunities given Mexican painters for public mural work.” “I saw in the Mexican effort a profound and much-needed redirection of art towards its ancient humanistic foundations. The Mexican concern with publicly significant meanings and with the pageant of Mexican national life corresponded perfectly with what I had in mind for art in the United States. I also looked with envy on the opportunities given Mexican painters for public mural work.”
US Promoters Rivera was promoted by Anita Brenner, Frances Toor and Walter Pach Orozco by Alma Reed.
David Siqueiros, Carved door, Casa Tezontle, Guadalajara, 1927
Rivera, The making of a Fresco, 1931
Rivera, Allegory of California, Pacific Stock Exchange, 1931
Diego Rivera in San Francisco Anthony W Lee, Painting on the Left Diego Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco's Public Murals
Rivera, Detroit Institute of Art and Design, 1933
Rivera in Detroit Laurance P.Hurlburt, The Mexican Muralists in the U S Linda Banks Downs, The Detroit Industry Murals (1999)
Rivera, Man at the Crossroads
Orozco at Dartmouth College Jacquelynn Baas, “The Epic of American Civilization” Renato Gonzalez Mello & Diane Miliotes, eds., Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, pp
Orozco, Social Revolution, Orizaba Industrial School, 1926
Orozco, The Coming of Quetzalcoatl, 1932
Orozco, The Departure of Quetzalcoatl, 1932
Orozco, Cortes and the Cross, 1932
Orozco, Anglo America, 1932
Orozco, Hispano America, 1932
Orozco, Gods of the Modern World, 1932
Orozco, Modern Human Sacrifice, 1932
Orozco, Modern Migration of the Spirit, 1932