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The Chicano art movement was a platform for Chicanas to speak about their struggles even when it was difficult, with boundaries within the Chicano movement itself and being excluded from the feminist movement. Scholars have emphasized that the sexist and patriarchal views of the 1970s had an effect on the Chicano movement.
Chicana art emerged as part of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s. It used art to express political and social resistance [1] through different art mediums. Chicana artists explore and interrogate traditional Mexican-American values and embody feminist themes through different mediums such as murals, painting, and photography.
Before this, Chicano/a had been a term of derision, adopted by some Pachucos as an expression of defiance to Anglo-American society. [14] With the rise of Chicanismo, Chicano/a became a reclaimed term in the 1960s and 1970s, used to express political autonomy, ethnic and cultural solidarity, and pride in being of Indigenous descent, diverging from the assimilationist Mexican-American identity.
Chicano mural in Clarion Alley Street art in San Francisco, California. A Chicano mural is an artistic expression done, most commonly, on walls or ceilings by Chicanos or Mexican-American artists. Chicano murals rose during the Chicano art movement, that began in the 1960, with the influence of Mexican muralism and the Mexican Revolution. [1]
People are familiar with the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s. They might be less familiar with what’s known as the Chicano Movement, but the movement’s impact can still be felt today.
The previous year the Chicano art group Asco spray-painted the LACMA facade to protest the lack of Latino representation in the museum. Initially, Los Four were offered a corner of a gallery at LACMA.
This movement lasted from the 1940s to the 1970s. The movement was on the rise during the 1960s, as it was a time of widespread social, economic, cultural, and political change in America.
The Chicano movement of the 1960s, also known as El Movimiento, was a movement based on Mexican-American empowerment. [11] It was based in ideas of community organization, nationalism in the form of cultural affirmation, and it also placed symbolic importance on ancestral ties to Meso-America.