Mexico Art

Art is highly related to culture, and a culture change can give back to the society. For Mexico, there are a couple culture Stages that affect the artistic variation.

Mexico is located in Central America. This region, especially in the coastal and southern regions, is the most ancient civilization in the Americas. 1500 years ago, namely before the Spanish rule in Mexico, are defined as the pre-Columbian times, there have been a highly developed Mayan and Aztec cultures, has the unique characteristics of the local art. After sixteenth Century, the ancient civilization was destroyed by the colonists; the Mexico art is at a low ebb. After the independence of Mexico, art shows a new prosperity, and in the development of the world, art has made a more important position. Thus, Mexico fine arts are divided into two stages before the Columbia era and after sixteenth Century.

In early sixteenth Century, the first generation of Spanish influence in Spain - Mexico art. The earliest Spanish art Mexico is Abbey buildings, such as Francis Can and Ian Augustine monastery. The monastery is usually a single corridor, circular arch, buttress, or polygonal apse. Because of its use in religious trials, the church's central office is in a very important position. The entire building has a defensive purpose, usually built with bricks. This monastery is not an architect but a monk, built by local workers.

Mexico painting in the late nineteenth Century, the emergence of new classical painters had little impact. At the beginning of the 20th century, Mexican mural movement during the revolution, M. Gerardo, J.C. Orozco, D.A. Siqueiros, D. Rivera are all great muralists, the Mexican Arts in the art world achieved the status that can’t be ignored.