Research Paper On Mexican Muralism

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MEXICAN MURALS

In the early 1920s, a new movement that started in Mexico manifested as the revival of a large-scale mural painting and received the name of Mexican muralism.
Beginning with the presidency of Alvaro Obregon (1920-1924), and in order to reunify the country during the upheavals of 1910-1929, Mexican authorities promoted some sort of Socialist Realism, which brought about what was known as the Renaissance of mural painting in Mexico.
In addition, that movement began with the murals of one of its three main artists, and the one who was considered the chief figure, Diego Rivera. The artist had to execute murals for the Mexican National Preparatory School and the Ministry of Education between 1923 and 1928, and he did so along with