Diego Rivera Thesis

Diego Rivera created his “own language”-the visual language-to be able to showcase the complex history that Mexico underwent during the multiple battles. In 1520 Spanish had conquest of the Aztecs, 1810 Mexico fought for their independence from Spain--this war took about 11 years, 1857 the land loss, 1910 Mexican Revolution (Lecture April 17). These battles made Mexico’s nation fall apart, led to government instability, and loss of identity which is why Rivera would create murals of these events (Lecture April 17). Mexico was split and the nation had crumbled; Mexico had forgotten what is was to be Mexican and what made them a nation because they were no longer united and they no longer had an identity. These murals Rivera painted about the “everyday life …show more content…
The new representation that Rivera constructed of Mexico way of life allowed Mexico to build a new order that would get rid of the old depiction of being seen as victims of massacre of Pre-Colonialism. Rivera created something new that would make Mexicans look like heroes and a country capable of becoming great in the future. This built to the formation of the Mexican identity because the Mexican were allowed to see their history come to life and see in the murals the new order of Mexico. In the mural Tierra y Libertad, Rivera created a painting with the heroes that fought for Mexico in the Mexican Revolution. In murals like Rivera incorporated the ideology of unity, even though these heroes had a different agenda at the end they wanted to help Mexico be great. Diego Rivera’s murals would cover religion, state, industrial revolution, war and technology which had controversial point. Nonetheless started catching the eye of the people because it was so different compared to other art being done in