HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Diego Rivera, Coatlicue, Teotihuacan
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History of art 88 lecture 19 the mexican muralist movement (1920s-40s) Encaustic: pigments are mixed with hot wax and applied to the surface of a wall. Rivera, history of mexico: mexico today and tomorrow, national palace, What is a mural: ties to the pre-columbian mural forms (e. g. the teotihuacan murals, less mobile and less likely to become a commodity, sense of permanence, site-specific and typically (but not always) open to the public eye, large-scale. In the 1920s, murals became a platform for socialist and political movements but over time, that radical revolutionary quality of the creation of murals began to fall away and fade into the past. The initial patron of the state-sponsored mural programs was jose vasconcelos, the minister of education from 1921 to 1924. What was born as an art movement eventually became an artifact of the state.
