Mexican Paintings.
Painting is one of the oldest arts in Mexico. In pre-Hispanic Mexico it is present in buildings, codices, ceramics, costumes, etc; Examples of this are the Mayas mural painting by Bonampak or those of Teotihuacan, Cholula y Monte Albán. It is believed that oldest cave painting in America is the one found in a cave on the Baja California with 7500 years ago.
Mexican painting in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The period between the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in our history determines the historical development of the period know as the Colony. A period that marked a strong dependence of the then Viceroyalty of New Spain on its dominant metropolis. Artistic expressions are usually the reflection of what happens in the social sphere and the dense religious thought of the time permeates the literary, architectural, sculptural and pictoral expressions mainly.
Mexican painting in the 19th century.
In the 19th century, Romantic painting was of great quality and began its academic work with novel themes with a tendency towards mexicanism.
Alongside the production of academic painting, the so – called “Popular” painting flourished wich, far from academicism, arose spontaneously. Their exponents depended more on their own skills than on their own knowledge.
Within the popular painting are the so- called votive offerings or altarpieces religious works dedicated to the virgin María or to the Saints, for the graces granted; these creations are usually made on small plates of small dimensions and with bright colors.
Mexican painting in the 20th century.
The Mexican art of the 20th century was characterized by having diverse artists who distingished themselves by leaving mark with their images. Many of them had another nationality however their artistic development reached its fullness in Mexico and therefore they have had a great influece of it in their artistic work. There are easel paintings or murals that have become iconic of 20th century art, wich are populkar in the rest of the world because they are pieces of excellent technical, tematic and aesthetic quality.
Muralism
Mexican Muralism is a pictorial movement initiated in the 1920s, as part of the modernization polices of the state of Mexico after the revolution of 1910.
Is a movement ispired by a purpose: to build a national identity to unite the different sectors of Mexican society, given the profound social inequalities of the time, especially educational and cultural.
Most recognized works of México.
Man on fire (1939) José Clemente Orozco.
Located in the Cabañas Hospice in the capital of the state of Jalisco, this monumental work is created on one of the domes of the emblematic enclosure. The space that was used as a canvas, represented a challege, because of its curvature the strokes had to be thought carefully. The wonderful thing about this work of art is that, if you go trough the space where the painting is, you will be able to appreciate incredible three-dimesional effects.
The man at the crossroads (1933) Diego Rivera.
In 1933, the magnate John Rockefeller Jr. hired the Mexican painter to make a mural in the lobby of one of this main buildings of Rockefeller Center in New York. However, Rivera always identified himself with the communist currents and include a portrait of Lenin. Rockefeller, saw it as an insult and ordered it destroyed.
Multiple self-portrait (1950) Juan O' Gorman.
Although O' Gorman studied architecture, his talent led him towards painting. This self-portrait also occupies character. The work is a paradox.
Roots (1943) Frida Kahlo.
This work not only marvels for its technique, because it is considered as one of the best-quoted Mexican works in the world, but for the moving story behind it.
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