(10 Aug 2022) MEXICO MURALS
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San Salvador, Mexico – 30 July 2022
1. Wide of 232-square-meter mural in San Salvador's downtown showing revolutionaries, pre-Hispanic figures, women voting and teaching
2. Various of Jesús Rodríguez Arévalo, muralist, on scaffolding painting the wall
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jesús Rodríguez Arévalo, muralist and professor of the arts institute of the Hidalgo State Autonomous University:
"We see muralism as a frozen film in still images that tells the story of the life of each specific place. Urban art, well, urban art is another manifestation that we respect and will continue to exist. And also graffiti, but that is not muralism."
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Mexico City, Mexico – 3 August 2022
4. Exterior of Fine Arts Palace
5. Wide of murals inside Fine Arts Palace
6. Various of David Martinez Bourget, historian and researcher at the Fine Arts Museum, in front of the mural Katharsis by Jose Clemente Orozco
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) David Martínez Bourget, historian and researcher at the Fine Arts Museum:
"As every artistic movement, there is a generational change of baton and the concerns are not always the same. That is why we can consider a fall of this movement because the political and historical conditions of Mexico towards the second half of the 20th century were transformed."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Salvador, Mexico – 30 July 2022
8. Various of Rodríguez looking at the images used to design the mural
9. Various of the mural
10. Various of Janet Calderon, muralist, working on the mural
11. Tilt down of the mural showing a breastfeeding woman
12. Calderon working on the mural
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Janet Calderon, mural artist:
"Working on a wall in a town, on a street, in a rural area is the same as working a wall in a forum or in a municipal palace. It has exactly the same value and importance for me and from my point of view I come and work the best I know and the best I can. Because my commitment is to the wall."
14. Aerial of mural ++MUTE++
15. Various of mural artist working
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mauricio Cruz, resident of Poxindeje:
"Everywhere you go, every corner you go, there is a mural and people say it's beautiful, and it stays there. There are times when instead of seeing nothing but a yellow fence, you see all the details that have been captured in that mural. And it's very nice."
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Poxindeje, Mexico – 30 July 2022
17. Mid of mural
18. Various of murals and muralists walking past murals
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Mexico City, Mexico – 3 August 2022
19. Exterior of Diego Rivera Mural Museum
20. Various of "Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central" (Dream of a Sunday afternoon in the Central Alameda) by Diego Rivera
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) David Martínez Bourget, historian and researcher at the Fine Arts Museum:
"I do not think that muralism as a monumental and social plastic exercise will decline as long as the concerns of a community are present, as long as there are some sectors seeking social justice, we will be seeing these kinds of expressions."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Salvador, Mexico – 30 July 2022
22. Various of Rodríguez on scaffolding painting the wall
23. Wide of mural
LEADIN:
Artists in Mexico are painting murals a century after the start of the Mexican muralist movement.
Although the original movement is over, some artworks tackle similar themes, keeping its spirit alive.
STORYLINE:
One hundred years earlier, Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco also started out in a school.
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