The contemporary Mexican artistic movement known as muralism, a movement of public art that began with images painted on walls in an effort to represent Mexican national culture, is closely linked ideologically with its main sponsor, the new Mexican government elected in 1920 following the Mexican Revolution. ████ ██████████ ████████ ██ █████████ ████████ ████████ ███ ███ █████ █████████████ █████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██ ███████ ████████ ████████ ███ ████████████ ███
Intro topic ·Muralism (Mexican art movement involving images representing Mexican culture)
Linked to Mexican government following Mexican Revolution, which called on artists to show good things about Mexico.
Style of Muralists ·Muralists developed own distinct styles
Rivera incorporated elements of pre-Columbian sculpture and Italian Renaissance. Orozco had more expressionist style. Siquieros was similar to Orozco, but had some stylistic differences. (Need to come back for the details of the style differences if questions ask about this; not worth trying to remember.)
Cause of stylistic experimentation ·Moving to new medium (large walls) led to experimentation
Muralists moved from small easel paintings to large compositions on walls. Muralists had to use larger brush gestures. They also had to make their work viewable from many different angles.
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
6.
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Question Type
WSE
We want to support the claim that Mexican mural painting wasn’t just a result of changes in political and social awareness. It also resulted from important artistic innovations.
a
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This is the best answer. (A) shows that muralists created murals that didn’t involve political issues. This helps the author downplay the government/political aspect of the muralist movement.
b
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This indicates that some muralist painters weren’t familiar with the innovations in art at that time. If anything, this might undermine the author’s position by showing that some muralists didn’t have art that reflected important artistic innovations.
This doesn’t strengthen, because it’s not clear whether revivals of earlier movements represent artistic innovations.
d
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This doesn’t strengthen, because even if officials weren’t familiar with artistic innovations, that doesn’t help establish that muralist work contained artistic innovations or wasn’t mainly a result of political/cultural issues.
e
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If anything, this might undermine the author’s position by connecting muralist work even more to government approval. The author wants to de-emphasize the government-connection aspect of muralism.
Difficulty
78% of people who answer get this correct
This is a low-difficulty question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%120
132
75%157
Analysis
WSE
Art
Single position
Spotlight
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
78%
162
b
4%
159
c
6%
156
d
11%
161
e
1%
156
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