Mexican Muralist movement This art movement began in Mexico
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Mexican Muralist movement This art movement began in Mexico in the early 1920s when, in an effort to increase literacy, Education Minister José Vasconcelos commissioned artists to create monumental didactic murals depicting Mexico's history on the walls of government buildings. Artists of the Mexican Muralist movement include José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Middle ground The part of the picture that is between the foreground and background. Minimalism An artistic movement of the 1960s in which artists produced pared-down three- dimensional objects devoid of representational content. Their new vocabulary of simplified, geometric forms made from humble industrial materials challenged traditional notions of craftsmanship, the illusion of spatial depth in painting, and the idea that a work of art must be one of a kind. Source: https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/glossary A glossary A thesaurus An online dictionary