Diego Rivera East Wall Analysis

Artworks have played an indelible work to the lives of humanity. The creative nature in Artists is a complex matter to define. The uncertainties in the intrinsic nature in art lay difficult aspects that can only be answered by values, themes and skills depicted in an artist artwork. Apart from playing the intricate psychological effect on humans, the artworks have been used as a tool of expression that has been revered and uniquely preserved for future generation. Among some of the most revered modern forms of artwork has included Chicano Art that had a core relationship to Las Carpas, Indigenismo, rascuachismo and other forms of performance art.

Ancient Mexico is a grandiose mural which represents the main events of Mexico’s history from the Pre-Columbian Period to Modern Time. The inspiration came to Diego Rivera, from the nationalist movement of his country. Therefore, the mural elements are prototypical of the painting style’s era. Physically the mural is located on the stairway of the Mexican National Palace, in Mexico City; which is the place where the Presidents work. This mural was commissioned at the end of the Mexican Revolution by the federal government. Moreover, this masterpiece depicts its era, considering that this was the dominating genre in the 1920’s, among the Mexican painters.

The following two paintings were found in the Portland Art Museum. These both art works by Diego Rivera and Joseph Stella portray their own life experiences. A main theme found in both paintings is the representation of identity oneself and the identity of one’s culture.

Mexican artists, more than most other artists in the Americas, exemplify the political and social obligations of artists. According to Soltes (2011), several Mexican artists of the early twentieth century were inspired by the revolutions and political unrest occurring in Mexico, which was reflected in their work. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) considered one of Mexico’s Renaissance artists, influenced by European avant-garde style, painted Zapatista Landscape (1915). This work was done as Rivera’s tribute to the Mexican revolutionary “Emiliano Zapata who had played a key role in the 1910 Mexican Revolution that had overthrown the then President Porfirio Diaz” (Soltes, L43, 4:42). Soltes (2011) describes this work: “very clearly we see a rifle; we see it's a sarape, together with a very stylized backdrop of water, mountains and sky, punctuated by a work that seems largely to emulate the synthetic cubist style of Picasso and Braque that we've earlier discussed. One has the allusion indeed, that we are looking at a collage of geometric forms made of diverse materials imposed against that background of vague sea and sky”(L43, 4:13).

The History of Mexico" is an art piece that took 6 years to make (1929-1935). Rivera's painting obviously represents the history of Mexico. Since the mural took 6 years to make they were broken into sections, North, West, and South wall. The North Wall represents the richness of ancient Aztec culture. The main West Wall summarizes the history of Mexico such as conflicts, rebellions, and revolutions against oppression.

The idea of the Chicano community muralism as a requirement for the “art of place” shows that the practice is specific to an area. Even though they are understood in the context of the history of a location, they rarely remain to be a still symbol of a certain moment or a place in the record of events from the past.

In the story, “And Summer is Gone” by Susie Kretschmer, the character David is a very trusting, naïve, lonely, shy, academic and artistic boy who grows up to be able to maturely look back at his relationship with his neighbor to realize how he had grown up and his friend, Amy, had not. When he first met Amy he was shy. (“I’m David, I mumbled…”: paragraph 4). David was also naïve to his new neighborhood and Amy befriended him and took him on adventures near their homes. He trusted Amy when she took him to a creek.

Hispanic art, food, and entertainment all have a common theme; they are all fun, light-hearted, yet fulfilling and rich in cultural heritage. On one side, Mexican culture in particular loves to make fun of itself. There are many depictions in song and art of lazy Mexicans in large sombreros with thick mustaches eating burritos. On the other hand artists like Diego Rivera paint large murals depicting rich historical events like the revolution, in bold colors on controversial topics (This Old, n.d.).

“Every good composition is above all a work abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects although without his work suffering impoverishment” (Diego Rivera’s Famous Quotes). Diego Rivera, a popular artist in San Francisco, explains why there is a value to his painting; all good works are ambiguous but, one who paints cannot display a message without having experience. Diego Rivera’s latest mural in San Francisco called Pan-American Unity, a valuable treasure to the city reflects with Diego Rivera 's’ quote because he laid out many symbols and figures that highlight his adventure and experiences. Pan-American Unity has five panels in total, and was created for Golden Gate International

For those interested in saving the economy and the environment of the United States of America and Mexico, then building a wall is not the answer. Walled borders will cause more harm than good. Furthermore, building a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border will affect the economy drastically and the environment.

Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter whose work was very influential to both Mexican and American cultures in the early twentieth century. Rivera was very passionate about his work and hoped to change the world one day with his creations. His work was rather expressive, showing his historical Mexican roots while also going along with the many revolutions and displaying radical views in his paintings. Rivera’s work is important to the history of art and to the societies of Mexico and America.

Bright colors jumping at you asking for attention, images so real viewers can not tell the difference. These are the thoughts that came to my head as I gazed at two works of art by two Mexican artists at MoLAA museum of art . I visited two museums, Bowers Museum of cultural Art in the heart of Southern California and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach for my report unfortunately I only liked the works in MoLAA and will talk about it through out my paper. I will talk about two Mexican artists Rafael Cauduro and David Alfaro Siqueros that caught my eye, and made me want to learn more of them and their approach to art. Siqueiros caught my eye and interest because according to his biography “no

TXT- Bravo worked with surrealist photographs that were influenced by Mexican culture with religion to create symbolic images that are expressive emotionally and psychologically in the composition. Page 256

I choose to write about the Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera. Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter who was commissioned to paint murals based on Detroit’s history and development of industry. The work is from the early modern age (1933). The murals depict the interior of the Ford automotive plant on the river Rough. I found it interesting that although the paintings represent a flourishing town and industry; in reality when Rivera first began to work on them, Detroit was still struggling to reclaim its pre-depression glory. Even though many workers had lost their jobs at Ford, Rivera immortalized them and their contributions in his creations. Whether or not they were appropriate at the time is subjective.

After reading “An Introduction to the Murals,” I was able to better understand what I read in Lewisohn’s article. It was quite difficult to digest what