An Art in Revolution: Antecedents of Mexican Mural Painting, 1900-1920

1964 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Patterson

In 1920, at the National Preparatory School in Mexico City a series of experiments into the techniques of fresco painting blossomed into a full-blown mural movement that captured and held the American imagination for thirty years. Long before the names of the painters were famous as “revolutionary” artists, however, Mexican art had been in revolutionary ferment. The painters, despite their many individual differences, shared a common rich heritage which made possible the success of the mural movement.The creative outburst which culminated in the Mexican mural movement was dependent upon two oddly dissimilar precedents. The first was the formal academic training most of the painters received at the Academy of San Carlos, the government-supported art school. The second was their participation in a bloody revolution and their assessment of the struggle when peace was restored.

Author(s):  
June I. K. Black

Diego Rivera was an artist born in 1886 in the Mexican city of Guanajuato. The family relocated to Mexico City in 1892 as a consequence of the liberal politics of Rivera’s father. In the capital, Rivera was educated at the National Preparatory School and the National School of Fine Arts (formerly known as the Academy of San Carlos), where he studied under Félix Parra, Santiago Rebull, and José María Velasco. In 1904, he met Dr. Atl, who was likely the first to encourage Rivera to explore Modernism. By utilizing the multifaceted, compressed, and interlocking planes characteristic of Cubism together with the naturalistic forms more common to academic art, his works represent a peculiar blend of the academic and the avant garde.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-351
Author(s):  
Omar Velasco Herrera

Durante la primera mitad del siglo xix, las necesidades presupuestales del erario mexicano obligaron al gobierno a recurrir al endeudamiento y al arrendamiento de algunas de las casas de moneda más importantes del país. Este artículo examina las condiciones políticas y económicas que hicieron posible el relevo del capital británico por el estadounidense—en estricto sentido, californiano—como arrendatario de la Casa de Moneda de México en 1857. Asimismo, explora el desarrollo empresarial de Juan Temple para explicar la coyuntura política que hizo posible su llegada, y la de sus descendientes, a la administración de la ceca de la capital mexicana. During the first half of the nineteenth century, the budgetary needs of the Mexican treasury forced the government to resort to borrowing and leasing some of the most important mints in the country. This article examines the political and economic conditions that allowed for the replacement of British capital by United States capital—specifically, Californian—as the lessee of the Mexican National Mint in 1857. It also explores the development of Juan Temple’s entrepreneurship to explain the political circumstances that facilitated his admission, and that of his descendants, into the administration of the National Mint in Mexico City.


1889 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 331-354

The following paper contains the record of an investigation into the degenerations which follow lesions of the gyrus marginalis and gyrus fornicatus in Monkeys. The work has been carried on under my direction by Mr. France, with the aid of a grant from the Government Grant Fund, and represents part of a long investigation into the degenerations which follow artificially produced cerebral lesions, the material for which has been furnished by cases operated upon in conjunction respectively with Professor V. Horsley and Dr. Sanger Brown. These cases and the physiological results of the operations have already been published in the ‘Philosophical Transactions.’ The experiments here dealt with, twelve in number, comprise only the lesions of the gyrus marginalis and gyrus fornicatus, and, with one exception (case 12), are taken from the series of experiments performed in conjunction with Mr. Horsley. Of the twelve cases, six were of removal, or attempted removal, of the gyrus marginalis, and six of removal, or attempted removal, of the gyrus fornicatus. But in only one or two instances was the lesion, as determined by post-mortem examination, exactly limited to the convolution which it was attempted to remove, for in most cases the adjacent gyrus was to a certain extent involved in the injury. This was especially the case when removal of the gyrus fornicatus had been attempted, on account of its deep situation, and the difficulty of getting at it without some manipulation of the superjacent gyrus. Nevertheless, the removal of one or the other gyrus was sufficiently complete in all the cases here selected to produce characteristic symptoms and characteristic descending degenerations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Alexandri Luthfi

Globalisasi, sebagai suatu proses integrasi internasional, terjadi karena pertukaran pandangan dunia dalam berbagai sektor. Di Indonesia gelombang globalisasi sudah bergerak lebih dari 25 tahun. Tumbuh dan berkembangnya memberikan pengaruh terhadap berbagai sisi kehidupan bangsa dengan semua  atribut budayanya. Di bidang pendidikan, globalisasi memiliki dampak yang cukup besar bagi perubahan pada sistem atau model pembelajaran dan kurikulum yang diajarkan. Era industri kreatif yang digulirkan oleh pemerintah melalui Menteri Perdagangan RI waktu itu masih dijabat oleh Dr. Mari Elka Pangestu, telah  memberikan peluang seluas-luasnya bagi pendidikan tinggi seni agar dapat berfungsi sebagai salah satu pilar bagi pertumbuhan ekonomi kreatif di Indonesia.Indonesia sudah memiliki kantong-kantong institusi dan perusahaan yang dapat menjadi mitra bagi para lulusan pendidikan seni. Para talenta yang kreatif dan terampil lulusan pendidikan seni adalah sumber daya manusia yang diperlukan bagi sektor industri kreatif di masa mendatang. Karya film dan program acara televisi sebagai karya seni yang memiliki standart estetika, di dalamnya terdapat gagasan, pengolahan artistik, matrialisasi, pengalaman teknik dan manajemen produksi, yang  proses produksinya  membutuhkan sekelompok atau individu sumberdaya manusia berkualitas dengan tingkat  pendidikan setara diploma dan sarjana. Kemudian juga dengan  televisi apabila sudah masuk ke dalam rana industri kapitalis, tentu akan berdampak pada bagi masyarakatnya, seperti yang dijelaskan oleh Redatin Parwadi untuk menciptakan perilaku konsumtif bagi konsumennya inilah, televisi mempunyai peran yang sangat penting baik sebagai media ataupun sebagai alat bagi kaum kapitalis untuk mengkonstruksi pikiran konsumen. Sejalan dengan konsep HAKI yang melindungi kualitas  karya cipta  anak bangsa dari originalitas dan eksistensinya, tentu lembaga pendidikan seni memiliki peran penting di dalam melahirkan sumberdaya manusia yang mampu menghasilkan karya seni  kreatif dan inovatif. Maka dewasa ini, di Indonesia sudah saatnya menerapkan konsep  pendidikan multikulturalisme berbasis budaya lokal yang dapat menjadi salah satu alternatif untuk membangun kearifan lokal menuju kebudayaan dunia. Art Education of Film and Television as Actuation in the Creative Economy Industry for the Lecturers of Television Department, Faculty of Recorded Media Arts ISI Yogyakarta. Globalization, as a process of international integration, occurs because there is an exchange of the world’s view in some sectors. In Indonesia, the wave of globalization has been ongoing for more than 25 years. Its growth and development have given influence to all aspects of nation’s life with its cultural attributes. In education, globalization has a quite big impact for the shift of system or learning model and the taught curriculum. The era of creative industry launchedby the government through the Indonesian Minister of Trade which was once held by Dr. Mari Elka Pangestu, has now given a vast opportunity for higher education in art to be one of the pillars for the growth of creative economy in Indonesia. Indonesia has certain institutions and companies that could be partners for the graduates of art school. Creative talents andskillful graduates from art school are the necessary human resources for creative industry sector in the future. Films and television programs as works of art which has standardized aesthetics, therein we could find ideas, artistic process, materialization, technique and production management experience, whose production processes need a group of people or qualified human resources holding diplomas of bachelor degree and bachelor of honors or those in equivalence. When television is admitted into capitalist’s industry, it will affect the society, as stated by Redatin Parwadi, to create a consumptive behavior for the consumers,television has an important part both as media and as means for the capitalists to construct the mind of the consumers. In accordance with the concept of HAKI (intellectual rights) to protect the quality of copyrights owned by the nations’ generation with their originality and existence, higher education of arts has a very significant role in creating human resources who are able to create creative and innovative works of art. Nowadays, Indonesia has already applied multiculturalism education concept on the basis of local wisdom that could be one ofalternatives to build local wisdom into world’s culture.


ZARCH ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Lorena Bello Gómez

Using Mexico City (CDMX) as a paradigmatic example of seriously unbalanced water regimes, our project Resilient Code helps strengthen and communicate CDMX’s government efforts toward risk reduction and water resilience in marginal communities. Our project does so by bridging otherwise separate agents in the government towards a common goal: equitable resilience. Resilient Code provides design solutions that link the social infrastructure of PILARES (a network of 300 vocational schools distributed throughout the city) to CDMX’s environmental and risk reduction initiatives, including their Risk Atlas. This strategic program of design-based solutions began with “water resilience” as a Pilot to repurpose public space throughout underserviced barrios as a network of “water-commons”. Resilient Code helps partners in CDMX implement projects to reduce environmental risks and complement socio-economic programs, fostering growth of the “water-commons”. Resilient Code is socialized through a participatory game-based workshop, and through an online Atlas of Risk Reduction.


Author(s):  
Paul Valentine ◽  
Lionel D. Sims

During the 1930s in the Venezuelan village of San Carlos de Río Negro, the Baré practiced cross-cousin marriage. However, by the 1980s they married hypergamously among the Curripaco, Geral, and Criollos, all of whom had recently migrated to the village. There is considerable historical material on San Carlos, which when coupled with fieldwork, facilitate the formulation of a number of hypotheses to test what best accounts for this transformation of marital rules. Lévi-Strauss predicted the causes of the breakdown of elementary kinship structures and the creation of complex ones; this chapter suggests an alternative scenario. In a parallel case, Curripaco women migrated to San Carlos in the 1970s and 1980s, could marry someone employed directly or indirectly in the government project, Codesur (Comisión para el Desarrollo del Sur), and became incorporated into the complex kinship structure of this ex–rubber boom village. This chapter suggests their social transformation sheds light on the Baré transformation of some forty years earlier.


2021 ◽  
pp. 483-520
Author(s):  
Eric Van Young

Alamán’s internal self-exile in Mexico City, when he hid for nearly two years only to emerge in 1834, is discussed in as much detail as is possible for a largely undocumented episode. Having left the government along with the other ministers during 1832, he was being pursued by agents of the state and political enemies to stand trial before a congressional grand jury for his involvement in the judicial murder of Vicente Guerrero. The chapter also discusses his cordial relationship with the U.S. envoy who replaced the recalled Joel Poinsett, Anthony Butler. The fall of the Anastasio Bustamante government to an uprising led by Santa Anna is narrated, along with Alamán’s eventual trial, his spirited defense of himself, the intervention of Carlos María de Bustamante (not the president) on his behalf before the Supreme Court, and the ex-minister’s exoneration at the hands of President Santa Anna.


2019 ◽  
pp. 69-100
Author(s):  
Rolando Ochoa

This chapter presents a first attempt at a methodologically sound history of the crime of kidnapping—in particular, its evolution from the 1970s to today in Mexico and specifically in Mexico City, from existing only as a political tool used by radical groups to promote their struggle or raise funds for their cause, to a crime that is simply economical in nature. Kidnapping has become a crime that affects mainly the working and middle classes as opposed to its traditional wealthy victims. The chapter analyses the evolution of kidnapping gangs and also how the government responded to them via a diverse set of policies. It also describes the gangs which took part in this crime.


Perception ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 33-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Davies ◽  
J Howes ◽  
J Huber ◽  
J Nicholls

We report a series of experiments in which spatial judgments of the real world were compared with equivalent judgments of photographs of the real-world scenes. In experiment 1, subjects judged the angle from the horizontal of natural slopes. Judgments of slope correlated with true slope (r=0.88) but judgments were in general overestimates. Equivalent judgments of slope in photographs again correlated with true slope (r=0.91) but judgments tended to be overestimates for small angles (6°) and underestimates for larger angles (up to 25°). In experiment 2 slope judgments were made under laboratory conditions rather than in the natural world. The slopes, which were viewed monocularly, varied from 5° – 45°, and were either plain, or textured, or included perspective information (a rectangle drawn on the surface) or had both texture and perspective. Judgments were overestimates, but the correlation with true slope was high (r=0.97). Slopes with either texture or perspective were judged more accurately than plain slopes, but combining texture and perspective information conferred no further benefit. Judgment of the angle of the same slopes in photographs produced similar results, but the degree of overestimation (closer to the vertical) was greater than for the real slopes. In experiment 3, subjects either judged the distance of landmarks ranging from 200 m to 5000 m from the observation point, or judged distance to the landmarks in photographs. In both cases subjects' judgments were well described by a power function with exponents close to one. Although there are large individual differences, subjects' judgments of slope and distance are accurate to a scale factor, and photographs yield similar judgments to real scenes.


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