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History Of Visual Arts In Latin America And The United States

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When viewing graffiti and other related visual arts, one experiences “life in motion.” Tracing the history of visual arts in both Latin America and the United States, one notes that visual artists have fomented revolution by altering aesthetic practices and transforming social contexts. One links modern graffiti tags and pieces, defined as “unauthorized writing or drawing on a public surface,” to other visual art forms such as sketchbook work, prints, murals, and portable frescoes because all illustrate ideas through writing. Upon building and train walls in addition to other surfaces, artists have advertised their nametags and spread their views of race, politics, gender, and economics among the greater public. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, artists sketched two trends of similarity and charted two paths of difference characterizing the histories of graffiti and other visual arts. While modern graffiti writers opposed political racism and chose anonymity to enrich visual arts traditions, they also reformed gender hierarchies and altered cultural visions to distance modern graffiti from …show more content…

As revolutionary sentiments developed in Mexico, painter Gerardo Murillo incited masses of indigenous and mestizo peasants to oppose Díaz’s Eurocentric values through strong symbolism. Murillo’s fiery volcano painting features brown hues that symbolized indigenous agency and reds that signified uprising, predicting that an army of non-white Mexicans would unite around land reform to overthrow Díaz. In Mexico in the 1910s, Murillo and other artists who created large-scale murals resisted the dictatorship’s prevailing Eurocentric culture and inspired thousands of Mexicans to revolt. Unlike future artists, Mexican revolutionary painters promoted broad visions of social

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In chapter three of Guisela LaTorre’s book Walls of Empowerment, she discusses the problems with graffiti and mural art and compares graffiti to mural art. She also discusses the gender inequality within graffiti artists and muralists, the influences of graffiti on LA, and east coast influences on muralists in the 1980s. Finally, she concludes that although mural art gains more approval than graffiti, both art forms serve to reclaim space in which the government and society traditionally denied to disfranchised

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Siqueiros was also a member of the Mexican Communist Party but used his knowledge and first-hand experiences to advocate for the social justice of his time. He first started fighting for social justice and revolutionary ideologies “At 15 he participated in a student strike at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico demanding abandonment of outmoded methods of art instruction. He served as an officer in the Mexican revolution before going to study in Europe.” (Goldman,321) Before going into the revolution, Siqueiro had begun with an interest in indigenous culture, and “He began to realize that’s just such magnificent culture result as had been produced by the older civilizations… “Porfiristo” had prevented them from appreciating to its fullest extent of all the import and beauty of the Indian culture—”( Rogo, 6) This will be relevant when later he was commissioned to paint a “tropical America”, Siqueiros “instead of painting “ a continent of happy men, surrounded by Palms and parrots where the fruit voluntarily detached itself… I painted a man… crucified on a double cross, which had, proudly perched on top, the eagle of the North American coins.”

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The transformation of Olvera Street into a colorful tourist site attempted to hide its historical realities. When exiled Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueros was commissioned to paint a mural, expectations were of an exotic jungle scene. However, when the mural was unveiled “all anticipations of an artwork depicting Southern California as an idyllic land of perpetual sunshine, the missions, and the open shop were instantly shattered.” Ameríca Tropical instead depicted the scene of a crucified Indian amid fallen pyramids, armed revolutionaries, and a bald eagle symbolizing Yankee imperialism. Estrada points out that Ameríca Tropical serves to explain how underlying forms of protest can clarify our understanding of the Plaza as an arena for the continued fight over historical narratives.

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In the 1960’s, the United States went through a period of clarity and diversity in thought, analysis and action for people from Mexico or those who practiced the Mexican culture. Issues of deep resonance and problems both Mexican and American communities faced were brought to light through different platforms that include multiple socio-political mobilizations, art, and music all throughout the country (Cockcroft, 1993). This later ensued into battles of cultural reclamation and self-determination that combined into a national consciousness called the Chicano Movement. The Chicano Art Movement represents the attempts made by Mexican-American artists in establishing a unique artistic identity in the United States. Most of the Chicanos belonged

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We can interpret the thoughts of the citizen’s and events that occurred within the city using this source. The graffiti, generally well inscribed, typically made by

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Charlie Works Mrs. Tomczak Language Arts 12 March 2024 Graffiti is art, it can be one of the best creations you have ever seen, and it can be anything you can imagine, but all of that can come at a cost. Graffiti is also vandalism, it can promote gang violence, racial slurs, damage property, and make property value go down. In the article “Wiping Out Graffiti in Houston” it claims “all graffiti is vandalism” by the city of Houston, department of neighborhoods. Graffiti comes at a hefty price to clean, in one year it costs 300-900 million dollars a year to clean up graffiti. Anyone can do graffiti.

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Chicano art possesses a true aesthetic, mirroring a diverse and ever-changing Chicago reality. Today's Chicano art is multipurpose and multifaceted, social and psychological, American in character and universal in spirit. Chicago is considered as people's art movement, outside of museums and hierarchy, so it continues to establish radical or protest art. Since most Chicano artist continue to be rejected for the creative works due to cultural bias therefore, Chicano art does not appear in museums, alternatively motivating the tension between artists and art authority. Chicano art can be expressed as the experiences Chicanos went through by deciphering codes in images, signs, and symbols.

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Chicano art as 3 common themes - Immigration, geography and displacement. Taking an activist stance, artists illustrate the historical presence of Mexicans and native people in the Southwest, the abuse of undocumented immigrants, racial profiling, and the militarization of the border. “Many Chicano artists have focused on the dangers of the border, often using barbed wire as a direct metaphorical representation of the painful and contradictory experiences of Chicanos caught between two cultures”. (Chicana and Chicano Art. Jackson, Carlos Francisco)

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Los Explotadores, painted by Rivera in 1926, depicts different types of groups during the Mexican revolution. The mural shows a few peasant women who seem hard at work. In the time the huge representation of the women who seemed to work and give just as much as the men. The next person seems to almost be crucified by the looks of the situation and orientation of the body. One can conclude that this person represents the indigenous people of Mexico who at the time were the most stripped of their rights and land.

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Murals are one of the main forms of activism in Mexico at the moment which depicted the poor living conditions and farming industries. It embedded the Mexican’s struggles and rebellion against the oppression of the United States. Many of these artworks symbolize the Chicano’s reaffirmation to unify their land and people. Immigration, displacement, and working conditions are common themes in Chicano art. Many artists illustrated the unfair presence of Mexicans and immigrant workers in the United States, such as the human rights abuses of undocumented immigrants, and racial profiling of workers.

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The Chicano Art Movement presents effort but Mexican American artist to demonstrate a specific aesthetic identity in the United States. Some of this artwork and the artists making Chicano art were heavily influenced by Chicano change (el movimiento) which started in the 1960’s. Chicano Art was influenced by post Mexican change ideologies and pre Columbian artwork, European art techniques and Mexican American cultural, political and social matters. This movement worked to defy and challenge prevalent societal norms and stereotypes for social independence and self discrimination. Some topics this changes focused on we’re awareness of corporate history and society improvement of land grants and equal opportunity for cultural mobility.

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Introduction Attention Getter ( Capture): Anyone walking down the street in a big city will see the bright, colorful, and illegal “eyesore.” Introduce the topic: Graffiti is illegal in many places but many larger cities also have “legal yards” where artists can paint without the fear of being arrested, like Freak Alley. But some people don’t like of any street art.

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Graffiti is considered an art form and is becoming more popular all over the world. This type of artwork has transformed into “a more legitimate form of art through artists like Banksy, who has had his

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