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It is difficult to establish a history for protest art because many variations of it can be found throughout history. While many cases of protest art can be found during the early 1900s, like Picasso's Guernica in 1937, the last thirty years [when?] has experienced a large increase in the number of artists adopting protest art as a style to relay a message to the public.
La Matanza ("The Massacre" or "The Slaughter") and the Hora de Sangre ("Hour of Blood") [1] was a period of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, including massacres and lynchings, between 1910 and 1920 in the midst of tensions between the United States and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. [2]
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v.
New York street art — The murder of George Floyd, the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Elijah McClain, and others due to police violence triggered the creation of street art in New York City. The art represents a memorial to those who died as well as a means to support the Black Lives Matter movement. [ 42 ]
One Riot, One Ranger is a bronze statue of a Texas Ranger, installed from 1961 to 2020 at Dallas Love Field, named for the famous story of Bill McDonald, a captain of Ranger Company B, in the 1900s who by himself broke up an illegal boxing match in the U.S. state of Texas.
2. “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” 3. "One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap."
The gifted painter, who died in 1966, drew from Renaissance and Old Master artists. An absorbing survey of his career is now on view at the Hammer Museum.
John Thomas Biggers (April 13, 1924 – January 25, 2001) [1] was an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II.