Chicano Mural Cont.

1960s political
movement
People had to move out of housing they were living in to make
way for infrastructure.
A highway was being built over the town. Residents were told
they had to move because the government had purchased the
property.
The Neighborhood was destroyed.

60s challenged main stream culture.

United farm workers union were protesting for better working

conditions
Protesting the Vietnam war.

Social unrest was happening In the late 60s artist throughout

the southwest set up cultural centers purpose to educate
people
 Mendez, et al v. Westminister
School District of Orange
County
Celia Mendez's father

In 1944 they bought a tiny

asparagus farm.

There were two schools at the time

one for whites one for Mexicans.

Conditions for the white school were

significantly better.

This case was 7 years before Brown

vs. Board of education.

Teacher training manuals in 1932 Lincoln Grammar

advised school officials that 75% of
Mexican-American children were
were mentally retarded.
If a Mexican-American wanted to
attend a white school they had to be
subject to examinations of their
homes for cleanliness and a
moral upbringing
School in El Modena,
east Orange County,
Calif., was one of the
schools involved in
the Mendez v.
Westminster case.
Lincoln started out
integrated, but then
a school for white
children was built
Education Blowouts
1968
Chicano mural La Familia from
CHICANO TIME TRIP
movement 1977

The roots of the movement.

 Murals and their history
public art provides society with
the symbolic representation of
collective beliefs
During the renaissance murals
were regarded as the highest
form in the hierarchy of painting.
The creation Michael Angelo cysteine
Murals illustrated religious chapel

They served to illustrate the

religious lessons of the church
and embody the new humanism
of the period through artistic
innovations like perspective and
naturalism anatomy.

Da vinci last supper

 Murals in a modern
context
Man
Controller of
the Universe
Diego Rivera

Murals later became the voice of the people in the Mexican Revolution.

However instead of being for the elite the murals now spoke for the
working class..
Mexican-Americans took inspiration from this and incorporated into their
artwork.