Chicano Art

By csalazar81
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    Chicano Art Movement

    The Chicano Art movement (1960s-) was a movement largely centered around Mexican-Americans securing their rights and claiming their identities as a Chicano person. It was also used as a period to bring to light the vast injustices that were happening to migrants and other non-citizen members of America.
  • Malaquias Montoya, George Jackson Lives, 1976, offset lithograph on paper, 23.5 x 18 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Malaquias Montoya, George Jackson Lives, 1976, offset lithograph on paper, 23.5 x 18 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Montoya's George Jackson Lives (1976) aims to bring out the injustice that was carried with George Jackson's murder. He was a political prisoner who was killed while in jail for being "too powerful" by spreading his "dangerous attitude" to other prisoners.
  • Ricardo Favela, Centennial Means 500 Years of Genocide!, 1976, screenprint on paper, 24 7/8 x 19 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Ricardo Favela, Centennial Means 500 Years of Genocide!, 1976, screenprint on paper, 24 7/8 x 19 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Favela's Centennial Means 500 Years of Genocide! (1976) is bringing to light what the colonists had done when they first "discovered" America 500 years ago. They murdered innocent Indigenous people for the sake of "claiming" their land even though the same Indigenous people are still the rightful owners.
  • Malaquias Montoya, Abajo con la migra, 1977, screenprint on paper, 22 3/8 x 16 1/6 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Malaquias Montoya, Abajo con la migra, 1977, screenprint on paper, 22 3/8 x 16 1/6 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Montoya's Abajo con la migra (1977) is a promotional poster for a film and/or a speaker about immigration and deportations. It was likely used to shed a light on the major injustices that are mass deportations.
  • Ricardo Favela, Dia de Las Madres (Single Rose), 1977, screenprint on paper, 22 3/4 x 17 1/2 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Ricardo Favela, Dia de Las Madres (Single Rose), 1977, screenprint on paper, 22 3/4 x 17 1/2 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Favela's Dia de Las Madres (Single Rose) (1977) is a promotional poster advertising an event being held on Mother's Day. It was an event where people could come together and celebrate the Moms with music, food and knitting.
  • René Castro, Hands off Cuba, 1986, Screenprint on paper, 28 x 22 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    René Castro, Hands off Cuba, 1986, Screenprint on paper, 28 x 22 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Castro's Hands off Cuba (1986) was a poster created when the US was attacking Cuba. It aimed to bring awareness to the cruel tactics that the US was taking on such a defenseless country and potentially promoting the Cuban Revolution.
  • René Castro, The 17th Annual Dia de los Muertos, 1987, screenprint on paper mounted on paperboard, 27 x 20 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    René Castro, The 17th Annual Dia de los Muertos, 1987, screenprint on paper mounted on paperboard, 27 x 20 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Castro's The 17th Annual Dia de los Muertos (1987) is a promotional poster for an art gallery at a cultural center. At the very bottom, there is a sentence that reads: "24th Street Chola Saints after the Missouri nuclear accident..." This could also serve as a memorial to those who passed in the Missouri nuclear accident.