Instruction
Choose an artwork from the Vida Americana Exhibit, use the Whitney Museum's website of the exhibit, and/or the NY Times article.
Write about two pages, typed, double-spaced on the Form and Content of the artwork you have chosen. Make sure you do enough research and know about the artwork you are writing about. *Make sure you write in your own words, and if you use a quote, you must site where you got the information from. Include the title, artist and date of the object and location if it's a mural. The website, articles, and links below should give you a lot of information.
Reading One: https://whitney.org/essays/america-mexican-muralism
Reading Two: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/arts/design/vida-americana-mexican-muralists-whitney.html
Read the paragraphs for each section or category of the themes of the show that the artworks evolve around, there are eight sections.
1. Romantic Nationalism and the Mexican Revolution: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana?section=1&subsection=1#exhibition-artworks
2. Orozco on the Coasts: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana?section=2&subsection=1#exhibition-artworks
3. Siqueiros in Los Angeles: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana?section=3&subsection=1#exhibition-artworks
4. Epic Histories: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana?section=4&subsection=1#exhibition-artworks
5. Rivera and the New Deal: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana?section=5&subsection=1#exhibition-artworks
6. Art as Political Activism : https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana?section=6&subsection=1#exhibition-artworks
7. Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana?section=7#exhibition-artworks
8. Siqueiros and the Experimental Workshop: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana?section=8&subsection=1#exhibition-artworks