Estridentismo vs Mexican Muralism
エストリデンティスモ / メキシコ壁画運動
Estridentismo comes from Avant-garde and Mexican Muralism from Mural Traditions. Both are read here as style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Estridentismo
A Mexican avant-garde that shouted its praise of the post-revolutionary city, of radio waves and machines. Sharp woodcut lines, type running on the diagonal and imagery of cables and aerials erupted over a few years through magazines and handbills. The moment Latin American vanguardism found a speed of its own.
Mexican Muralism
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Paints post-revolutionary history, labor, indigenous culture and visions of the future onto the vast walls of public buildings.
| Estridentismo | Mexican Muralism | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1921–1927 | 1920s–1940s |
| Family | Avant-garde | Mural Traditions |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Sharp woodcut lines / Type set on the diagonal / Imagery of cables, aerials and machinery / The hard contrast of two-colour printing | Monumental murals / Crowds of figures / Political narrative / Public space |
| Best used for | Festivals or radio projects in a city that want the lift of waves and machines up front · Printing short run manifestos and handbills fast with nothing but woodcut and type | School and civic walls where local history must be read by people passing. · Exhibitions on labor or migration needing crowds of figures to show relationships. |
| Type | Heavy grotesque mixed with woodletter, the angle changing line by line | Keep lettering inside banners and flags, painted with the same brush as the image. |
| Composition | Drive cables and pylons across one diagonal, set text blocks square against it, leave no margin | Set the subject high for an upward view, running the crowd as one wave. |
| Material | Two inks, black and red, on coarse paper, the woodcut's white bite left in the line | Fresco on lime plaster with earth pigments, the wall texture left visible. |
| Caution | Tilting a modern layout slightly is not it, and without the post revolutionary city as subject it copies Futurism. The angle works only when the letters are cut and the register is rough. | Borrowing crowds and raised fists without deciding whose history is told and for whom yields a large decorative wall with no argument. |