Mexican Muralism
メキシコ壁画運動 / 1920s–1940s / Style / Mural Traditions
Paints post-revolutionary history, labor, indigenous culture and visions of the future onto the vast walls of public buildings.
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At a glance
Visual cues
- Monumental murals
- Crowds of figures
- Political narrative
- Public space
Best used for
- 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.
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Keep lettering inside banners and flags, painted with the same brush as the image.
- Composition
- Set the subject high for an upward view, running the crowd as one wave.
- Material
- Fresco on lime plaster with earth pigments, the wall texture left visible.
- Caution
- Borrowing crowds and raised fists without deciding whose history is told and for whom yields a large decorative wall with no argument.
- Further study
- Diego Rivera / José Clemente Orozco / David Alfaro Siqueiros
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- WPA Poster (WPAポスター)Shared effects: Trust / Exhilaration.Compare Mexican Muralism and WPA Poster
- Woodcut (木版画)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration.Compare Mexican Muralism and Woodcut
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