Mexic-Arte Museum preserves & promotes Mexican art passed down through generations
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- 20 Apr 2023
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It spans the gamut of tradition, technique, beauty, and time. It's a collection that has been compiled over the course of the nearly forty years of the museum's history.
“It’s art forms that have been produced generation after generation,” said Executive Director Sylvia Orozco.
Following the revolution in the 1920s Mexico’s leaders sought to define and promote Mexico’s culture and art to its people and the world. The campaign included looking at artists from regions all over Mexico.
The search for a neatly defined Mexican art form is a difficult task to take on. The vast number of Mexican artists, both past and present, produce a wide variety of artworks.
The 'Expresiones de México, Arte de la Gente / Art of the People' collection has been compiled over the course of the nearly forty years of Mexic-Arte Museum’s history. (Credit: Sara Palma)
Their artworks also come in a great assortment of styles, subjects, and mediums. Like the towering and colorful mojigangas the larger-than-life puppets paper mâché designed and co-created by Rosa Maria Rivera.
“These are techniques, art forms, icons, a history that’s been preserved but then transformed and passed on from one family to the next,” said Orozco. Read More…
