Chicano+Movement+in+art

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 * ==[[image:http://www.weareca.org/images/period07/g-mexican-chicano/chicano-art-org-not%20-a-minoriity.jpg width="502" height="446" align="left"]]== || **IMPACT OF ART: **The El Movimiento Chicano or "Chicano Movement" was a significant era that Chicano's endured with their immersion into American society. The Chicano Movement took place during the 1960's and I was inspired when I found out how much artists had an impact on the spread of the Chicano socio-politcal movement. The participation of artists greatly caused American society to be aware of the injustices chicanos were facing. As artists proactively participated in the efforts to redress the dilemma Mexicans faced while coming to America. Art played such an imperative role in this movement that I wanted to express the effect it had on Chicanos.

A major element of the Movement was the apperance of Chicano art fueled by heightened political activism and energized cultural pride. During the 20th century, an emergence of Chicano expression developed into a full-scale Chicano Art Movement. Chicanos developed a wealth of cultural expression through such media as painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Similarly, novels, poetry, short stories, essays and plays have flowed from the pens of contemporary Chicano writers. Chicano, Mexican-American, and Hispanic cultural centers, theaters, film festivals, museums, galleries and numerous other arts and cultural organizations have also grown in number and impact since this time. || ===="If Chicano art has been considered a long neglected entity within the realm of "Art History," certainly the attention given to the women artists of la Raza is a long time coming. Yet, if one examines closely Chicano art today and the many new expressions coming from the barrios, Chicana art is a strong voice emerging from this previously male-dominated field." Excerpt from Sybil Venegas, "Conditions for Producing Chicana Art," ChismeArte, Vol. 1 No.4, Concilio de Arte ==== ==== HISTORY OF THE CHICANO MOVEMENT: = = It can be said that the Chicano Movement has been forming since the end of the U.S.- Mexican War in 1848, when the current U.S-Mexican border took form and hundreds of thousands of Mexicans became U.S. citizens overnight. Since that time, countless Chicanos and Chicanas have confronted discrimination, racism and exploitation. The Chicano Movement that culminated in the early 1970s took inspiration from heroes and heroines from their indigenous, Mexican and American past. Community leaders, scholars, activists, artists, educators and students ushered in the Movement. Leaders such as Reies López Tijerina, Corky González, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta gave the Movement national leaders and voices and called attention to the issues facing Chicanos.
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Part of the Chicano initiative was to establish a variety of educational goals: reduction of school dropout rates; improvement of educational attainment; development of bilingual-bicultural programs; and expansion of higher education fellowships and support services. Still others include the development of Chicano centered curricula, the creation of courses and programs in Chicano studies, and an increase in the number of Chicano teachers and administrators. Thousands of students also mobilized and formed student organizations geared towards education reform, activism, and peer support. || CHICANISMO

Chicanismo provided a context for historical reclamation of the self through the affirmation of Chicano cultural narratives while resisting Anglo models of assimilation.According to art historian Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino, chicanismo is one of the most important principles in the Chicano Artistic movement. Chicanismo was a complex of nationalist strategies by which Chicano origins and histories, as well as present and future identities, were constructed and legitimized. By the late 1960's, Chicanismo had become in effect the central strategy in the process of self definition for the Chicano community.



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 * // Reflection after my research on this topic : //**

I LOVE art and I was fascinated by the amazing artwork I found through the web. I think that Chicano's really opened Americans eyes through their passionate art thats so full of life. The fact that so much emotion and hardship can be depicted through art is astonishing and I found it really cool to learn about chicano culture through art, you can really put yourself in their shoes after looking at their expressions of life through paintings and murals. From the body language to the environment, art can really have a powerful impact on people especially when they are presented in Chicano communties or "barrios". I enjoyed this project and I feel that I've gained personal knowledge of this culture. I hope you enjoyed my project and I hope i enlightened you on some awesome chicano artwork as well ! :] ||