The Chicano Art Movement represents movements by Mexican-American artists to establish a unique artistic identity in the United States. Much of the art and the artists creating Chicano Art were heavil
An example of Herminia Albarrán Romero's masterful papel picado.
Sunset on the Sacramento River by Fortunato Arriola, 1869, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University
Section of mural by José Clemente Orozco at Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. This is about 1/4 of the total mural.
The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento, was a social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano identity and worldview that combated structural racis
Chicano art movement
…artists to establish a unique artistic identity in the United States. Much of the art and the artists creating Chicano Art were heavily influenced by the Chicano Movement (El Movimiento), which began in the 1960s. Chicano art was influenced by post-Mexican Revolution ideologies, pre-Columbian art, European painting…
Cesar Chavez with demonstrators
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
Three of the "Big Four" of the Chicano movement at the Raza Unida Party's 1972 convention: Reies Lopez Tijerina, New Mexico (second from left), Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Colorado (center), and José Ángel Gutiérrez, Texas (far right). Cesar Chavez, California, did not attend.
Luisa Moreno, a Guatemalan social activist who played a major role in the pre-Chicano Movement.