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Ch. 6.4

Ch. 6.4 . Murals of Latin America. Tenochtitlan Marketplace Diego Rivera, 1933. Aztec merchants trade their daily wares in the Aztec capital, surrounded by Lake Texcoco. Conquest Jose Clemente Orozco, 1939

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Ch. 6.4

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  1. Ch. 6.4 Murals of Latin America

  2. Tenochtitlan Marketplace Diego Rivera, 1933 Aztec merchants trade their daily wares in the Aztec capital, surrounded by Lake Texcoco

  3. Conquest • Jose Clemente Orozco, 1939 • Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conqueror, surrounded by symbols of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs

  4. Absorption of the Indian • Jose Clemente Orozco, 1927 • Hernan Cortes and Dona Marina symbolize the blending of the Spanish & Indian races to create a new people, the Mestizo race

  5. Colonial DominationDiego Rivera, 1933 Summarizes 300 yrs. of mistreatment of the indigenous population by the colonizing Spanish

  6. Fight for Liberty • Jose Clemente Orozco, 1939 • Father Miguel Hidalgo leads a revolt against the Spanish rulers of Mexico.

  7. Juarez and the Fall of the EmpireJose Clemente Orozco, 1948 Benito Juarez, the first leader to bring significant legal reform to Mexico, surrounded by images of the struggles that led to those changes.

  8. Revolution Against Porfirian DictatorshipDavid Alfaro Siqueiros, 1922 Porfirio Diaz surrounded by the fashionable clothing of the European society to which he aspired.

  9. RRepression, History & Perspective of MexicoDiego Rivera, 1933 Porfirio Diaz uses force to control peasants’ dissatisfaction as they endured slave-like conditions on large haciendas (ranches)

  10. The Trench • Jose Clemente Orozco, 1927 • Soldiers sacrifice themselves for the revolution.

  11. Land Distribution • Diego Rivera, 1920’s • Redistribution of land that resulted from the Mexican Revolution.

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