CHICANO 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Yolanda Lopez, Teatro Campesino, Judy Baca

• School: UCLA
• Department: Chicana and Chicano Studies
• Course: CHICANO 10A
• Professor: J O H N S O N

Document Summary

Art created by chicanx people and in chicanx communities. At the same time, it"s an art with links to ideas styles, themes in mexico but not mexican art. An art created in opposition to standard artworld discourses and institutions. Chicanx artists also tend to be activists or at least politically minded. Chicanx art is frequently seen in alternative exhibition spaces (walls of our communities, display in cultural centers) Judy baca - the great wall of los angeles (1976-1984) These art works served chicano movemtn some critiques the chicano movement with a feminist perspective. A painting on a wall, often of a building. Tended to be public art, on public spaces, schools, public buildings, not museums or private segments. Mural artists choose to paint art for the public. Use social reliasm -- an artistic style meant to be readable to all. To paint on the walls is to make visible our culture, politics, etx.