In a time when national identity was confused and not very unified in Mexico, art was able to provide some of that sense of national pride and identity. Through various artist's and their artwork the national history and characteristics of the Indian people were portrayed. José Obregón was one of those artists, through his painting Discovery of Pulque, that encouraged national identity. Juan Cordero was another painter whose work was useful, his influential painting was Columbus Before the Catholic Sovereigns. Obregón's painting is representing a pre-Hispanic legend of how the drink pulque was found. The big and new part about his painting at that time was that the Indians were not only the main characters shown but also the only ones. In
