Objects of Mexican Muralism

Mexican Monumental Painting or Mexican Muralism was an artistic movement of monumental painting in Mexico in the 1920s-1960s. Throughout the country there is a huge number of works by representatives of this most vibrant art movement of Mexico of the twentieth century. Most of them are in Mexico City, and I'll give you a tour of the best of them.

Background

In 1917, after the end of the civil war, the bloody consequences of the revolution became the motive of many cultural figures of Mexico at the time. The development of such a new direction of fine art as Muralism, its main ideologists David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. The artistic processes affecting the formation of counterculture in Latin America, in their energy and message, are equally similar to the modernist mood of the Russian futurists of the 1920s, and to the situationist political graffiti of the 60s.

Main topics

Revolutionary movement, criticism of capitalist society and imperialism, folklore. Combined with various traditional techniques of the country’s precolonial period, such murals look convincing, appealing to the related roots of the Mexican people.

What we'll visit

National Palace (optional)

Palace of Fine Arts

David Siqueiros Polyforum

Diego Rivera House-Studio (a photo fee of about $1.50)

Olympic Stadium

Additionally. Frida Kahlo Museum (+ 15 US dollars per person to the cost of the tour, photo fee – about 3 US dollars)