Art produced during the Chicanx Movement
Group Page
- Introduction / Background to the Chicano Art Movement.
- Reference course reading Art by Rita Gonzalez.
- Latina/o art is the shaping, iterating, and/or interrogating of the cultural expressions of one’s relationship—even if contested—to latinidad.
- Just as “Latina/o” and “Latin American” are heavily contested terms, so too is “Latina/o art” in that it can be used as an umbrella term to encompass diverse artistic practices from geometric abstraction to activist driven social practice art.
- Discuss the meaning behind producing art for each artist during the movement.
- Each page dissects a specific artist/mural important to Los Angeles and its significance in its inclusion of our page.
- Focus:
- Mexican artists believed art could act as a vehicle for political and social change.
- Chicano art can be viewed as a form of protest art.