Post-Revolutionary Mexico in the 1920s developed a vital tradition of mural art that became a vehicle for education and political expression. In the United States, New Deal arts programs provided for the painting of murals in public buildings, but interest in the art form faded during World War II and after. With the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Hispanic artists turned to murals as part of their heritage and began producing works, especially in cities of California and Texas. El Paso is one of those ...
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Post-Revolutionary Mexico in the 1920s developed a vital tradition of mural art that became a vehicle for education and political expression. In the United States, New Deal arts programs provided for the painting of murals in public buildings, but interest in the art form faded during World War II and after. With the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Hispanic artists turned to murals as part of their heritage and began producing works, especially in cities of California and Texas. El Paso is one of those cities, with more than 100 murals having been documented by the early 1990s. Miguel Juarez, a cultural arts historian, who had been involved in arts projects for some years, interviewed the major artists of El Paso murals, some of them long-time professional painters such as Manuel Acosta and Mago Gandara, and others commanding groups of volunteers. Many of artists were elementary and high school students. Photographer Cynthia Farah, who took part in some of the interviews, chronicled the murals beginning in 1979; some that she photographed are now gone. Their collection of interviews and art works serves as a tribute to this particularly Hispanic artistic development of the El Paso border region.
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