A presentation that really stood out to me this past week was on Irene Perez, a Latin American artist in Las Mujeres Muralistas. The artist that I focused on for my Wikipedia article was Graciela Carrillo, who was another member of Las Mujeres Muralistas. Therefore, Irene Perez stood out to me a lot because I had already kind of read about information relating to her through my research on Graciela Carrillo’s work in Las Mujeres Muralistas. I also included this piece on Latinoamerica in my own presentation last week and mentioned it as a notable piece in my wikipedia article for my artist. However, the reason why I am writing about it now is because Professor Alma Lopez offered an important perspective on how this artwork shows the significance of different alliances within different Latin American individuals. This painting was created during the Mexican American mural movement which is important to realize because while Chicanos were creating murals as activism and pride, it was still heavily dominated by men. By Las Mujeres Muralistas taking part in this movement as women, they were not only challenging the dominant narrative of men creating good art, but it was also calling for the unification of Latin Americans too. So even though the movement was for Mexican Americans and was dominated by men, Las Mujeres Muralistas were able to incorporate women by being women who created the art and united people from Latin America as well or included them into this movement too. This harassment from some Chicanos was that it was not perceived as revolutionary enough since it was not created by men. This artwork was not just for Mexicans, Mexican Americans, but members were from different places in Latin America too. Unity was the political statement that they were making aside from being women making this work.
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