Mexican and Latin American Muralism
By the 1930s, the Latin Art has been widely influenced the European arts culture and primarily by the Spanish and Russian art movements that were rapidly developing after the industrial revolutions. However, after the 30s of the 20th century, the Latin American art became aware of new approaches and techniques - a combination of its own typical culture mixing it with different political or social factors.
This is how muralism developed and spread in South America - the movement was marked by the Marxist theory and the socialism movements and this is the reason why many of the communism features of order and social divisions might be found in the paintings of the famous muralists from Latin America, these were acting as modern day pvc banners to support movements. Many of the paintings were depictions of the society - equality and order, non-division of the nation. The typical elements of the socialism are presented in these depictions - such symbols are the perfectly shaped and huge buildings ( a symbol of the economical prosperity proclaimed by the socialists), the machines and the people working in harmony ( as industrialisation was a main aim of communism), the red colour as a dominant background and others.
Later, after that period of development, muralism became even more widely spread in Latin America and tge murals became traditional decorative elements mainly for public buildings - in Mexico schools, government buildings, hospitals and other public institutions became covered with pieces of art descending from the muralism. Thus the movement became quite popular among not only the South Americans, but in the US and Canada as well. This is how many of the famous Latin artists emigrated to the US to teach the foundations and the main aspects of muralism thus giving birth to the modern fresco painting.
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