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The last colonial era art institution established was the Academy of San Carlos in The most important of these was the rise of the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe as an American rather than European saint, representative of a distinct identity. By the late 18th century, Spain's colonies were becoming culturally independent from Spain, including its arts. The Academy was established by the Spanish Crown to regain control of artistic expression and the messages it disseminated.
This school was staffed by Spanish artists in each of the major disciplines, with the first director being Antonio Gil. These casts are on display in the Academy's central patio. Mosaic located in Mexico City. Artists of the independence era in Mexico —21 produced works showing the insurgency's heroes. The portrait is typical of those from the late eighteenth century, with framing elements, a formal caption, and new elements being iconography of the emerging Mexican nationalism, including the eagle atop the nopal cactus, which became the central image for the Mexican flag.
The Academy of San Carlos remained the center of academic painting and the most prestigious art institution in Mexico until the Mexican War of Independence , during which it was closed. Its former Spanish faculty and students either died during the war or returned to Spain, but when it reopened it attracted the best art students of the country, and continued to emphasize classical European traditions until the early 20th century.
The academy was renamed to the National Academy of San Carlos. The new government continued to favor Neoclassical as it considered the Baroque a symbol of colonialism. Despite Neoclassicism's association with European domination, it remained favored by the Mexican government after Independence and was used in major government commissions at the end of the century. However, indigenous themes appeared in paintings and sculptures. One indigenous figure depicted in Neoclassical style is Tlahuicol, done by Catalan artist Manuel Vilar in The base has elements reminiscent of Mitla and Roman architecture.
This base contains bronze plates depicting scenes from the Spanish conquest, but focusing on the indigenous figures. There were two reasons for this shift in preferred subject. The first was that Mexican society denigrated colonial culture—the indigenous past was seen as more truly Mexican. In Mexico, this anti-establishment sentiment was directed at the Academy of San Carlos and its European focus.
In the first half of the 19th century, the Romantic style of painting was introduced into Mexico and the rest of Latin America by foreign travelers interested in the newly independent country. One of these was Bavarian artist Johann Moritz Rugendas , who lived in the country from to He painted scenes with dynamic composition and bright colors in accordance with Romantic style, looking for striking, sublime, and beautiful images in Mexico as well as other areas of Latin America. However much of Rugendas's works are sketches for major canvases, many of which were never executed. Others include Englishman Daniel Egerton , who painted landscapes in the British Romantic tradition, and German Carl Nebel , who primarily created lithographs of the various social and ethnic populations of the country.
A number of native-born artists at the time followed the European Romantic painters in their desire to document the various cultures of Mexico. These painters were called costumbristas , a word deriving from costumbre custom. The styles of these painters were not always strictly Romantic, involving other styles as well. Most of these painters were from the upper classes and educated in Europe. While the European painters viewed subjects as exotic, the costumbristas had a more nationalistic sense of their home countries.
His scenes often involved everyday life such as women working in kitchen and depicted black and Afro-Mexican vendors.
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Idealized and simplified depictions became more realistic, with emphasis on details. Scenes in this style were most often portraits of the upper classes, Biblical scenes, and battles—especially those from the Independence period. When the Academy of San Carlos was reopened after a short closure in , its new Spanish and Italian faculty pushed this realist style.
Despite government support and nationalist themes, native artists were generally shorted in favor of Europeans. Realist painters also attempted to portray Aztec culture and people by depicting settings inhabited by indigenous people, using live indigenous models and costumes based on those in Conquest era codices. This meant that following the military phase of the Mexican Revolution in the s, Mexican artists made huge strides is forging a robust artistic nationalism. In this century there are examples of murals such as folkloric style created between and in La Barca, Jalisco.
Highlights at this time: Unknown artist, no date. Casimiro Castro Mexicans in a rural scene outside Mexico City Frederick Catherwood Lithograph of Stela D. Copan , from Views of Ancient Monuments. Museo Nacional de Arte. Oil painting of Vicente Guerrero , leader of independence and president of Mexico. Posada published illustrations for many broadsheets. The Academy of San Carlos continued to advocate classic, European-style training until Both moved to the south of the city in the midth century, to Ciudad Universitaria and Xochimilco respectively, leaving only some graduate programs in fine arts in the original academy building in the historic center.
While a shift to more indigenous and Mexican themes appeared in the 19th century, the Mexican Revolution from to had a dramatic effect on Mexican art. The government became an ally to many of the intellectuals and artists in Mexico City [33] [38] and commissioned murals for public buildings to reinforce its political messages including those that emphasized Mexican rather than European themes.
These were not created for popular or commercial tastes; however, they gained recognition not only in Mexico, but in the United States. This production of art in conjunction with government propaganda is known as the Mexican Modernist School or the Mexican Muralist Movement, and it redefined art in Mexico. The first true fresco in the building was the work of Jean Charlot. However, technical errors were made in the construction of these murals: In the monastery area, Montenegro painted the Feast of the Holy Cross, which depicts Vasconcelos as the protector of Muralists.
Vasconcelos was later blanked out and a figure of a woman was painted over him. The first protagonist in the production of modern murals in Mexico was Dr. He changed his name in order to identify himself as Mexican. Atl worked to promote Mexico's folk art and handcrafts. While he had some success as a painter in Guadalajara, his radical ideas against academia and the government prompted him to move to more liberal Mexico City.
In , months before the start of the Mexican Revolution , Atl painted the first modern mural in Mexico. He taught major artists to follow him, including those who came to dominate Mexican mural painting. The muralist movement reached its height in the s with four main protagonists: It is the most studied part of Mexico's art history. Atl prompted these artists to break with European traditions, using bold indigenous images, lots of color, and depictions of human activity, especially of the masses, in contrast to the solemn and detached art of Europe.
Preferred mediums generally excluded traditional canvases and church porticos and instead were the large, then-undecorated walls of Mexico's government buildings. The main goal in many of these paintings was the glorification of Mexico's pre-Hispanic past as a definition of Mexican identity. These muralists revived the fresco technique for their mural work, although Siqueiros moved to industrial techniques and materials such as the application of pyroxilin , a commercial enamel used for airplanes and automobiles.
This four-year project went on to incorporate other contemporary indigenous themes, and it eventually encompassed frescoes that extended three stories high and two city blocks long. Another important figure of this time period was Frida Kahlo , the wife of Diego Rivera. While she painted canvases instead of murals, she is still considered part of the Mexican Modernist School as her work emphasized Mexican folk culture and colors. Having suffered a crippling bus accident earlier in her teenage life, she began to challenge Mexico's obsession with the female body. Her portraits, purposefully small, addressed a wide range of topics not being addressed by the mainstream art world at the time.
These included motherhood, domestic violence, and male egoism. Her paintings never had subjects wearing lavish jewelry or fancy clothes like those found in muralist paintings. Instead, she would sparsely dress herself up, and when there were accessories, it added that much more importance to them. Although she was the wife of Diego Rivera, her self-portraits stayed rather obscured from the public eye until well after her passing in Her art has grown in popularity and she is seen by many to be one of the earliest and most influential feminist artists of the 20th century.
Diego Rivera Mural in the main stairwell of the National Palace. David Alfaro Siqueiros , Mural at Tecpan. Despite maintaining an active national art scene, Mexican artists after the muralist period had a difficult time breaking into the international art market. One reason for this is that in the Americas, Mexico City was replaced by New York as the center of the art community, especially for patronage. This was mostly passive, with the government giving grants to artists who conformed to their requirements.
The first to break with the nationalistic and political tone of the muralist movement was Rufino Tamayo. For this reason he was first appreciated outside of Mexico. Like them he explored Mexican identity in his work after the Mexican Revolution. However, he rejected the political Social Realism popularized by the three other artists and was rejected by the new establishment. He left for New York in where success allowed him to exhibit in his native Mexico. His lack of support for the post-Revolutionary government was controversial. Because of this he mostly remained in New York, continuing with his success there and later in Europe.
His rivalry with the main three Mexican muralists continued both in Mexico and internationally through the s. In the s, Wolfgang Paalen published the extremely influential DYN magazine in Mexico City, which focussed on a transitional movement between surrealism to abstract expressionism. They rejected social realism and nationalism and incorporated surrealism, visual paradoxes, and elements of Old World painting styles. Like Kahlo before him, he drew himself but instead of being centered, his image is often to the side, as an observer.
The goal was to emphasize the transformation of received visual culture. His work was a mix of European abstraction and Latin American influences, including Mesoamerican ones. The third Independent Salon was staged in In the exhibition Mexico: In the mids, the next major movement in Mexico was Neomexicanismo, a slightly surreal, somewhat kitsch and postmodern version of Social Realism that focused on popular culture rather than history. This generation of artists were interested in traditional Mexican values and exploring their roots—often questioning or subverting them.
Art from the s to the present is roughly categorized as Postmodern, although this term has been used to describe works created before the s. The success of Mexican artists is demonstrated by their inclusion in galleries in New York, London, and Zurich. Kurimanzutto —a private gallery was founded in In the Olmedo Museum [90] was opened to the public. The great Mexican muralists of the post-revolution developed, with the paint mural, the concept of "public art", an art to be seen by Ias masses in major public buildings of the time, and could not be bought and transported easily elsewhere, as with easel painting.
Just like many other parts in the world, Mexico has adopted some modern techniques like with the existence of street artists depicting popular paintings from Mexico throughout history or original content. These include ceramics, wall hangings, certain types of paintings, and textiles. This linking among the arts and cultural identity was most strongly forged by the country's political, intellectual, and artistic elite in the first half of the 20th century, after the Mexican Revolution.
They are considered artistic because they contain decorative details or are painted in bright colors, or both. These were joined by other colors introduced by European and Asian contact, always in bold tones. Design motifs vary from purely indigenous to mostly European with other elements thrown in. Geometric designs connected to Mexico's pre-Hispanic past are prevalent, and items made by the country's remaining purely indigenous communities. They are especially prevalent in wall-hangings and ceramics.
One of the best of Mexico's handcrafts is Talavera pottery produced in Puebla. These are small commemorative paintings or other artwork created by a believer, honoring the intervention of a saint or other figure. The untrained style of ex-voto painting was appropriated during the midth century by Kahlo, who believed they were the most authentic expression of Latin American art.
Cinematography came to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution from the U. It was initially used to document the battles of the war. Revolutionary general Pancho Villa himself starred in some silent films. Villa consciously used cinema to shape his public image.
The first sound film in Mexico was made in , called Desde Santa. The first Mexican film genre appeared between and , called ranchero. These films featured archetypal star figures and symbols based on broad national mythologies. Settings were often ranches, the battlefields of the Revolution, and cabarets. Mexico had two advantages in filmmaking during this period.
The first was a generation of talented actors and filmmakers. In the s, the government became interested in the industry in order to promote cultural and political values. Much of the production during the Golden Age was financed with a mix of public and private money, with the government eventually taking a larger role. This gave the government extensive censorship rights through deciding which projects to finance.
The Golden Age ended in the late s, with the s dominated by poorly made imitations of Hollywood westerns and comedies. These films were increasingly shot outdoors and popular films featured stars from lucha libre.
Art and experimental film production in Mexico has its roots in the same period, which began to bear fruit in the s. His first major success was with Reed: Insurgent Mexico followed by a biography of Frida Kahlo called Frida He is the most consistently political of modern Mexican directors. In the s, he filmed Latino Bar and Dollar Mambo His silent films generally have not had commercial success. In the late 20th century the main proponent of Mexican art cinema was Arturo Ripstein Jr.. Some of his classic films include El Castillo de la pureza , Lugar sin limites and La reina de la noche exploring topics such as family ties and even homosexuality, dealing in cruelty, irony, and tragedy.
Another factor was that many Mexican film making facilities were taken over by Hollywood production companies in the s, crowding out local production. The movie was banned by the government but received support in Mexico and abroad. The film was shown although not widely. Starting in the s, Mexican cinema began to make a comeback, mostly through co-production with foreign interests. Those for a more domestic audience tend to be more personal and more ambiguously political such as Pueblo de Madera , La Vida Conjugal , and Angel de fuego. Those geared for international audiences have more stereotypical Mexican images and include Solo con tu Pareja , La Invencion de Cronos along with Como Agua para Chocolate.
Film professionals in the early 21st century tend to be at least bilingual Spanish and English and are better able to participate in the global market for films than their predecessors. Photography came to Mexico in the form of daguerreotype about six months after its discovery, and it spread quickly. It was initially used for portraits of the wealthy because of its high cost , and for shooting landscapes and pre-Hispanic ruins. This custom derived from a Catholic tradition of celebrating a dead child's immediate acceptance into heaven, bypassing purgatory.
Modern photography in Mexico did not begin as an art form, but rather as documentation, associated with periodicals and government projects.
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This image was European-based with some indigenous elements for distinction. Kahlo's style reflected the narratives of the period, solely focusing on major constructions and events, and avoiding the common populace. Like Kahlo, he began his career in the Porfirato, but his career was focused on photography for periodicals.
Again like Kahlo, Casasola's work prior to the Mexican Revolution focused on non-controversial photographs, focusing on the lives of the elite. The outbreak of civil war caused Casasola's choice of subject to change. He began to focus not only on portraits of the main protagonists such as Francisco Villa and general battle scenes, but on executions and the dead.
He focused on people whose faces showed such expressions as pain, kindness, and resignation. His work during this time produced a large collection of photographs, many of which are familiar to Mexicans as they have been widely reprinted and reused, often without credit to Casasola. After the war, Casasola continued to photograph common people, especially migrants to Mexico City during the s and s.
His total known archives comprise about half a million images with many of his works archived in the former monastery of San Francisco in Pachuca. Kahlo and Casasola are considered the two most important photographers to develop the medium in Mexico, with Kahlo defining architectural photography and Casasolas establishing photojournalism. Neither man thought of himself as an artist—especially not Casasolas—who thought of himself as a historian in the Positivist tradition, but the photography of both show attention to detail, lighting, and placement of subjects for emotional or dramatic effect.
For the rest of the 20th century, most photography was connected to documentation. However, artistic trends from both inside and outside the country had an effect. In the s, the dominant photographic style was Pictorialism , in which images had a romantic or dream-like quality due to the use of filters and other techniques. American Edward Weston broke with this tradition, taking these effects away for more realistic and detailed images.
These photographers' political and social aspirations matched those of the muralist movement and the new post-Revolution government. Photography and other arts shifted to depictions of the country's indigenous heritage and the glorification of the Mexican common people. Manuel Alvarez Bravo experimented with abstraction in his photography and formed his own personal style concerned with Mexican rites and customs. He was active from the s until his death in the s. Like other artists of the 20th century, he was concerned with balancing international artistic trends with the expression of Mexican culture and people.
His photographic techniques were concerned with transforming the ordinary into the fantastic. From the end of the s to the s his photography developed along with new technologies such as color, using the same themes.
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In the s, he experimented with female nudes. These post-Revolution photographers influenced the generations after them, but the emphasis remained on documentary journalism, especially for newspapers. For this reason, the focus remained on social issues. During the s, a fusion of various styles retained a social focus. Photography in Mexico from the latter 20th century on remains mostly focused on photojournalism and other kinds of documentary.
Francisco Mata de Rosas is considered the most notable photographer in contemporary Mexico mostly working with documentaries. Patricia Aridjis works with social themes, mostly to illustrate books. One of these is Javier Orozco who specializes in interiors. However, purely artistic photography has had an impact.
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