The chapter starts with a brief excerpt detailing how intellectualism has become the latest fad‚ it then relates L.A.s history as a city without a distinctive cultural and academic history to show the hypocrisy and naivety of such a claim. Having no successive generations of academics to truthfully‚ study and establish facts has created a chasm of actual research recording L.A and Southern California’s evolution‚ development and change. This absence of research has allowed the myths created to
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Emiliano Zapata has garnered a cult of personality that shares a common trait with myths from the beginning of time in which people would create gods to worship and heroes to admire. Zapata was a revolutionary during the Mexican Revolution who stands out as one of the most admirable figures in Mexican history. From the state of Morelos near the city of Mexico‚ he started a practical movement for land redistribution in his home state that transforms into an ideology of rebelling against bad government
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Alfred H. Barr’s Journal is an introduction to modern Cuban art is for readers who are unfamiliar with the subject. He begins the text by discussing Cuba’s newly acquired independence and its very traditionalist community. This is all written for the purpose of introducing San Alejandro‚ the only art school that existed when the artists Barr is discussing attended university. During the 1920s; the fact that it was the only art school in Cuba and Cuba’s history of Spanish colonization caused the school
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Sabrina Shaw Hunter 2A IB History of the Americas HL 7 November 2012 Paper 3 Guide: Mexican Revolution Bullet Points: Defined and Summarized: 1. Causes of the Mexican Revolution: social‚ economic‚ and political; the role of the Porfiriato regime * Porfirio Díaz was the dictator of Mexico from 1876 to 1910. His regime is known as the Porfiriato regime. Díaz’s social ideologies and aims were to divide and rule‚ obtain absolute power Díaz’s methods were the Pan o Palo policy and the spoil
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Jackson Pollock is an artist who is commonly acknowledged as someone who helped pave the path for contemporary artists. Pollock turned life and circumstance into a visual representation‚ giving way to ultimate expression and subjectivity. Jackson Pollock had many influences in his life: family (or lack thereof)‚ teachers‚ friends‚ and other artists who all contributed to his work in some way. These influences of Pollock were a cocktail that helped to produce some of the greatest examples of modern
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The three main and most important artists during this movement were Jose Clemente Orozco‚ Diego Rivera‚ and David Alfaro Siqueiros‚ and the muralists in Mexico were interested in Aztec and Mayan cultures‚ depicted some Mexican people and their heroes’ live and work. During the early years of the twentieth century‚ those three representative muralists who were influenced by the
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Impact of Industrial Revolution on Modern Art at the turn of the 20th Century. To understand most period and movements in modern art‚ one must first understand the context in which they occurred. When one looks at the various artistic styles‚ one will realize how artists react to historical and cultural changes and how artists perceive their relation to society. The transition between the 19th and 20th century has brought further development of modernistic ideas‚ concepts and techniques in
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Living in California‚ we become exposed to the Mexican culture through friends‚ neighbors and business associates. Wether its Mexican food‚ festivals‚ dances‚ music‚ clothes‚ language etc. When it comes to Mexico as a country‚ besides its beautiful resorts‚ Mexico displays rich history‚ excellent cuisine‚ Spanish colonial attraction‚ indigenous wisdom‚ and hospitality. Mexico has hosted civilizations like Olmecs‚ Teotihuacans‚ Zapotecs‚ Toltecs‚ Mayas‚ and Aztecs. Olmecs being the oldest of the pre-colonial
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The artist named Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez‚ better known as Diego Rivera‚ was and remains a prominent Mexican painter. Diego Rivera was born on the 8th of December 1886 in Guanajuato‚ Mexico and died on November 24‚ 1957 in Mexico City Mexico. Recognizing their son’s artistic abilities‚ at twelve years old Rivera was enrolled at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts (Souter‚ 2). Two years after graduation the government sponsored
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Mexico’s culture is one that is very diverse. It is derived from both indigenous cultures and Spanish colonial cultures. Throughout history‚ Mexico had struggled to find their national identity. Struggles such as Spanish Colonization have greatly impacted the Mexican Culture. Struggles such as the Mexican Revolution have greatly impacted Mexican Art. Although these struggles may have brought about turmoil‚ they played a significant role in Mexican culture today. Through it all‚ Mexico has learned
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