Ch 6 4 Murals of Latin America Tenochtitlan

Ch. 6. 4 Murals of Latin America

Tenochtitlan Marketplace Diego Rivera, 1933 Aztec merchants trade their daily wares in the Aztec capital, surrounded by Lake Texcoco

Conquest � Jose Clemente Orozco, 1939 � � Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conqueror, surrounded by symbols of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs

� Absorption of the Indian � Jose Clemente Orozco, 1927 � Hernan Cortes and Dona Marina symbolize the blending of the Spanish & Indian races to create a new people, the Mestizo race

Colonial Domination Diego Rivera, 1933 Summarizes 300 yrs. of mistreatment of the indigenous population by the colonizing Spanish

� Fight for Liberty � Jose Clemente Orozco, 1939 � Father Miguel Hidalgo leads a revolt against the Spanish rulers of Mexico.

Juarez and the Fall of the Empire Jose Clemente Orozco, 1948 Benito Juarez, the first leader to bring significant legal reform to Mexico, surrounded by images of the struggles that led to those changes.

Revolution Against Porfirian Dictatorship David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1922 Porfirio Diaz surrounded by the fashionable clothing of the European society to which he aspired.

R Repression, History & Perspective of Mexico Diego Rivera, 1933 Porfirio Diaz uses force to control peasants’ dissatisfaction as they endured slave-like conditions on large haciendas (ranches)

� The Trench � Jose Clemente Orozco, 1927 � Soldiers sacrifice themselves for the revolution.

� Land Distribution � Diego Rivera, 1920’s � Redistribution of land that resulted from the Mexican Revolution.