Correlation between Mexican Post-revolutionary Muralism and European Avantgarde in Interwar Period

Abstract

Artistic paradigms of interwar Avantgade are often regarde as ones of key articulations of cultural and political forms of thinking and manners in the frame of modernity, which constantly evoke necessity of examination and re-formulation not only in art but in art history as well. Although interwar avantgardes are politically and estetically very different, we can reflect several common features.

The most important seems to be critique of institucionalism, political orientation of art and reaction to crisis of depiction. The aim of the article is to point out these features in the context of post-revolutionary muralism and outline specific correlation between European interwar Avantgardes and Muralism.

Keywords

• Muralism
• European Avantgarde in Interwar Period
• Post-revolutionary time in Mexico
• National identity
• Institutionalism of Art
• Political art