Mexican Modernism

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Mexican Revolution context

  • hacienda system: run by EU-Mexicans to modernize Mexico

  • oppressed peasants & true Mexicans

  • Revolution → renewal in arts & new national identity

  • Diego & Frida turn back to Pre-Columbian art (Aztecs) because Aztec art refers to Mexican history

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Diego Rivera

  • Mexican muralist, painted for public display

  • paints to honor / support new Mexican identity after Mexican Revolution

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What were Diego Rivera’s subjects & style?

  • Universal people

  • rounded, swelling, simplified forms

  • rounded geometry

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Examples of Diego Rivera artwork

  • The Making of a Fresco (fresco = permanent for public display)

  • Flower Day (pride in Mexican heritage, symmetrical, closed, triangles, rounded geometry)

  • Liberation of the Peon (support for revolution, “Jesus” martyr, hacienda burns, rounded universal figures)

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Frida Kahlo style

  • small paintings

  • feminine

  • Mexican pride (Mexican clothes + hair)

  • self-portraits

  • painted her struggles

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Example of Frida Kahlo

  • Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace (thorn necklace = Jesus, martyr to love)

  • The Two Fridas (Mexican + German heritage, exposed hearts = love, pain)

  • Diego and I (suffocating, tears)

  • Frida as a deer (back pain & Diego heartbreak)