Week Two Readings and Videos

Readings

Read:

Download Chapter 3- All Mexico on a Wall by Mary Coffey1.pdf

Download Chapter 4 Siqueiros Communist Proposition for Mexican Muralsim by Jennifer Jolly-1.pdf

 Read:  Download Art and Revolution Chapter One.pdf

 (look at this closely for the essay assignment)

Mexican Muralists (Download these PDF's)

Download Mexican Muralists Chapter Three.pdf

Download Mexican Muralists Chapter four.pdf

Download How Mexico’s Muralists Lit a Fire Under U.S. Artists - The New York Times.pdf

Download Frida Kahlo Biography

More Frida links Links to an external site.

Keep reading "My Art, My Life" 

Links to an external site.Los Tres Grandes | Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

Required Video: Orozco: Man of Fire

Women in Mexican Art.

- Overview of Mexican Woman Artists Links to an external site.

- Download Aurora Reyes- The First Mexican woman muralist

Aurora Reyes: a rebel artist who fought for equality in Mexico

Video about Aurora Reyes in Spanish Links to an external site.

-Frida Kahlo Links to an external site.

Links to an external site.-Mario Izquierdo Links to an external site.

Tarsila do Amaral Links to an external site.- A Brazilian modern artist of this same period.

Videos

Los Tres Grandes | Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 Links to an external site.Los Tres Grandes | Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 Links to an external site.

YOU NEED TO READ OR LISTEN TO THIS INTERVIEW TO ANSWER QUESTION #3 ON THE MIDTERM

RIvera Interview in Spanish Links to an external site.

 

Transcript of interview in English

Download Diego Rivera Interview.pdf

This interview will help you understand how Rivera incorporated his Marxist ideology into his art.

 

Additional Links

Siqueiros information Links to an external site.

Orozco's work Links to an external site.

More Frida Kahlo Links to an external site.

 

Communist Manifesto Links to an external site.