Resistance and AffirmationFrancisco Guerrero

Chicano Art

Thesis Statement

In the 1960’s, during the Chicano Movement, art represented a stance that engaged and expressed the issues of its time through murals, music, and poem.

Research Questions

• How was art used to bring awareness to the issues surrounding Chicanos in the Chicano Movement?

• How did artists evoke change concerning the surrounding issues through murals?

• What were corridos mostly composed of?• How did Chicano Literature contribute to the Art

Movement in the 1960s? • Overall, how were people expressing themselves

during the movement and what kind of inspiration did the movement give off to future artists?

• I researched different artists that contributed to the movement such as Judith Francisco Baca, who painted the largest mural in the world named “The Great Wall” also artist such as Ester Hernandez with her Sun Mad screen print and I also did WSU’s student, David Padilla, mural of Chavez and Huerta.

• I also used a corrido by Los Mascarones y los Alacranes Mojados to show how Chicanos were expressing their struggle during the Movement. The composition of the corridos had a composition similar to a story (beginning, middle, end) and characters.

• I am Joaquin was a powerful poem during the Chicano Movement and I also used the power that Lorna Dee Cervantes had as a woman and bringing up issues during her time.

Evidence

Sources• Baca, Judith. “The Great Wall of Los Angeles: The History and Art of the

Great Wall.” Judy Baca. SPARCinLA. 2012. Web. 02 Apr. 2014. <http://www.judybaca.com/now/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151&Itemid=98>

• Gonzales, Rodolfo Corky. “I Am Joaquin”. Latin American Studies. Rodolfo Gonzales, 31 Aug. 2006. Web. 25 Apr. 2014. <http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/latinos/joaquin.htm.>

• “Lorna Dee Cervantes.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, 2010. Web. 27 Apr. 2014. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lorna-dee-cervantes

• “Murals from WSU Freedom School on Display.” WSU News. Washington State University, 22 Oct. 2012. Web. 27 Apr. 2014. https://news.wsu.edu/2012/10/22/murals-from-wsu-freedom-school-on-display/#.U16cqF6NhY4

• “Sun Mad.” Del Corazon. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2007. Web. 02 Apr. 2014. <http://americanart.si.edu/education/corazon/galeria_06.cfm>