Presencia de América Latina
Presencia de América Latina, also known as Integración de América Latina, is a mural painted by Mexican artist Jorge González Camarena between November 1964 and April 1965. The 300-square-meter mural, painted in acrylics on rough stucco, is located in the lobby of the Casa del Arte of the University of Concepción, in Concepción, Chile. Its principal theme is the unity and brotherhood of the different Latin American cultures.
The left panel of the mural with the nopal entwined with the copihue and the national flags.
A part of the mural.
The sea woman and Tlaloc begin the story of the mural.
The Spaniard fighting for conquest.
Jorge González Camarena was a Mexican painter, muralist and sculptor. He is best known for his mural work, as part of the Mexican muralism movement, although his work is distinct from the main names associated with it. His major works include the mural on the main administration building of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies and a mural created for the Universidad de Concepción in Chile. He also created easel works, one of which, La Patria, was well known in Mexico as it was used on the cover of free textbooks from the 1960s into the 1970s. Recognitions for his work include the Premio Nacional de Arte, membership in the Academia de Artes and the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, grade Commendatore from the Italian government.
Liberación mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mural work depicting Francis of Assisi San Buenaventura and Anthony of Padua in the Sala de Profundis of the cloister of the San Miguel Arcangel monastery in Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico
Historia de México (History of Mexico, Monterrey, 1954)
Presencia de América Latina (Presence of Latin America, Chile, 1964–65)