The Mexican Revolution introduced a new dawn, inspiring artists to look in search of a specifically Mexican artistic language. This visual vocabulary was made to give a national identity to the population undergoing change. It was these figures such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, who came to be known as the three greatest of Mexico's world-renowned muralists that also led the muralist movement. They had different styles and temperaments, but all three believed, as did many other artists of their time, that art is for the education and betterment of the people, not an abstract concept and it is the highest form of human expression which was a key force in social revolution. The arts, music and education were …show more content…
Even today, more modern writers have made the Mexican revolution the setting of many of their stories. While some musicians and writers romanticize the revolution by putting it in words and melodies of glory, others have used it as a means to search for the Mexican identity in the works. The Mexican Revolution gave birth to a large number of them that narrated a variety of events, such as important battles, or celebrated great leaders and fighters of the revolution. Therefore, the corridos became a way to record, celebrate, or mourn events, places, or people during the revolution: very much like a newspaper put to music. The corrido tradition documents aspects of Mexico’s culture and identity on a wide variety of subjects. For instance, each state of Mexico has its own corrido documenting important characteristics, products, regions, and people. There are also corridos dedicated to the soldaderas, the storied, iconic female soldiers of the revolution. The music was also used for political and social commentary and to express the further aims of the …show more content…
Vasconcelos led an educational reform movement where he changed, the scholar programs and believed that education was a form of emancipation. He mobilized intellectuals to offer free of charge adult education through lectures and a various cultural events. There was an 80% illiteracy rate, coupled with a shortage of teachers and schools. Not only that, but just the privileged elite were able to afford either private education or education abroad, when in fact the rural citizens, without a good means of communication, were the ones in the most dire need of education yet were only able to afford what the state could provide. Vasconcelos’s first step was reforming the Constitution so that he could establish a Ministry of Education. As secretary of Public Education he was able to acquire the most amount of money that had ever been allotted to the education system. Vasconcelos also initiated a nationalistic movement that was integrated into the educational system. Thus, the role of education in this context was to facilitate the people’s discovery of themselves, their past, and the identity of their own country. One final component of Vasconcelos’s reforms was the role of aesthetics. In other words, Vasconcelos aimed to go beyond the simple instruction of the man’s brain and he wanted to develop the entire individual, in mind, body, and soul. Thus, there was an