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Cultura - Articles, stories photos & lifestyle information Lowrider, Chicano & Hip-Hop culture articles by the SLM staff. A new article is published to this section along with each issue of SLM.

SLM Cultura Article - Issue 42 - by Tlecu Omitl

"An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn’t a great artist." Diego Rivera is considered the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century, the father of Mexican mural art and the father of modern political art in Mexico. Diego was an important personality in the art world of the ...

SLM Cultura Article - Issue 41 - by Tlecu Omitl

The “Father of Mexican Art” work has till this day influenced and revived the way art is portrayed in many ways of life. Only because of the way he seen life and displayed them in his work. So as we continue with the life of this extraordinary being, he returned from Russia in 1928 and met the soon to be famous Frida Kahlo at one of Tina Modotti’s weekly parties. In 1928 he was appointed director of the Academy of San Carlos. Hen then began proposing sweeping changes in the curriculum that drew huge criticism from the conservative administration. He also began work on his comprehensive history of the Mexican nation on the stairway of the Palacio Nacional, paints six large nudes, symbolizing purity, strength, knowledge, life, continence, and health in the ...

SLM Cultura Article - Issue 40 - by Tlecu Omitl

"An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn’t a great artist." Diego Rivera is considered the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century, the father of Mexican mural art and the father of modern political art in Mexico. Diego was ...