"Resisting Exclusion: Rupture & Rebellion in 20th Century Mexican Art" presents a selection of works from the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) art collection that explore the ways in...

2024年3月20日 · In 2015, a collective of Mexican artists initiated a multi-perspective intervention in a community near Mexico City, drawing inspiration from traditional Mexican muralism. Known as Germen Crew...

Watch the restoration of one of L.A.'s most controversial murals. Barbara Carrasco's 80 foot L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective, commissioned in 1981, was never completed as the artist was told to cease and desist for its all too accurate depiction of L.A.'s past.The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles's Conservation team and art restoration experts used novel techniques and science to ...

2017年8月18日 · Government-funded muralists have turned the hillside into a giant work of art, while helping locals to find employment opportunities and develop a sense of community. "The neighbourhood changed...

2016年7月7日 · Their large-scale art ideas stress the importance of letting projects grow organically and mirror the slums’ birth of being built by hand, from the bottom up. Listen to their story in this TED Talk. Las Palmitas, a hillside slum on the outskirts of Pachuca, Mexico, recently received a similar face-lift.

2015年8月9日 · A Mexican artists' collective called German Crew has painted a giant mural across the shantytown's houses, working with residents to transform their crumbling walls into a vibrant artwork. Viewed at a distance, the entire neighborhood now forms a bright, rainbow-colored wave that has brought new pride for residents and opened new horizons for ...

Best painting: a tropically rank portrait of Mexican Singer Aurelia Colomo (see cut), who carols tropically in the bar of Manhattan’s Hotel Weylin. Painters Merida and Cantú have done little...

2024年12月27日 · Beginning with the Olmec civilization, Mexico has a long tradition of mural paintings. The conquering Spanish destroyed Tenochtitlan and their art, bringing the Christian doctrine and building churches. Artist were commissioned to paint murals to reinforce that religion, similar to Italy during the Renaissance.

2 天之前 · When an Argentine architect, Luis Laplace, saw a neglected mural by the North American artists Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish at the Regional Museum of Michoacán, in the Mexican city of Morelia ...

The major art form produced in Mexico during the years following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, especially during 1920–1940, was mural painting, mostly in the technique of fresco. Three artists dominated this period: Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, known collectively as the Big Three.