tenetsofmovement




	The Tenets of the Mexican Mural Movement



DECLARATION Social, Political and Aesthetic of The Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors to the native races humiliated through centuries; to the soldiers made executioners by their chiefs; to the workmen and peasants flogged by the rich; to the intellectuals not fawners to the bourgeoisie . . . . . . THE ART OF THE MEXICAN PEOPLE IS THE GREATEST AND MOST HEALTHY SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION IN THE WORLD [and its] tradition our greatest possession. It is great because, being of the people, it is collective, and that is why our fundamental aesthetic goal is to socialize artistic expression, and tend to obliterate totally, individualism, which is bourgeois. We REPUDIATE the so-called easel painting and all the art of ultra-intellectual circles because it is aristocratic, and we glorify the expression of Monumental Art because it is a pubic possession. We PROCLAIM that since this social moment is one of transition between a decrepit order and a new one, the creators of beauty must put forth their upmost effort to make their production of ideological value to the people, and the ideal goal of art, which now is an expression of individualistic masturbation, should be one of beauty for all, of education and of battle.


		The tenets expressed the views and objectives of Mexican artists. It confirmed their desire to share their views of socialism and thus become a �cultural worker� instead of an elitist individual painter, some practiced this notion better than others. Orozco and Siqueiros accused Rivera of manipulating his political views to obtain Capitalistic U.S. patrons.



			Information gathered from Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change by Shifra M. Goldman.

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