Welcome to Mexican Muralism!
All images used are credited. 
Website dedicated to the art of Los Tres Grandes.
Created by Anastasia Bybina (class of '19) 

Context:
The Mexican Muralist Movement was a tradition that started in 1910-20's (1913) around the time of the revolution that overturned dictatorship. The movement artist leaders were Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros and they were called "Los tres grandes" (The Big three). They believed the Mexican art should represent the life in Mexico  honestly,  support values of the revolution,  and the Mexican identity, as well as a broader knowlege of the Mexican people's pre-Columbian past.
Los tres grandes believed that art was the highest form of human expression, therefore it was a key force in social revolution. Though they made large scale murals and sculptures, the murals weren't received positively which forced the artists to move to the US to make art there. 

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 By Jose Clemente Orozco, 1926

By David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1950-51

La Vende de Flores 

By Diego Ravera, 1928

By David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1937

 

By Diego Rivera

By Jose Clemente Orozco, 1931

By Diego Rivera

By Diego Rivera

By Jose Clemente Orozco

 By David Alfaro Siqueiros

By Jose Clemente Orozco 

By David Alfaro Siqueiros

By Diego Rivera

By Jose Clemente Orozco

By Diego Rivera