Name: Team Members: As a team, explore the mural and consider the story that the artist is trying to tell. Based on what you observe in the image, complete the following: I SEE: As a team, investigate the image and answer the following questions: What three colors do you notice first when you look at the image? Are some parts of the image lighter than others? Are the lines in the image mostly straight or curved? If you could cut the scene into three different sections, where would the divides be?
Which five figures stand out the most? Who is in the center of the image? What figures are at the far left and far right edges? How are people interacting with each other? (Provide three examples: one example from the left, one from the center and one from the right of the image.) I THINK: The following questions will ask your team to interpret the story of the mural using your observations as a guide: What is happening in this image? Who is this image about?
What mood does this image evoke for you? Does the mood change in the different areas of the image? How do the colors and lines affect the mood of the painting? What is the story of this image? (Write a brief description of the story in one to three sentences.) What title would you give this image? I WONDER: What three questions could you ask that would help you better understand the message and story of the mural? As a team, think of three questions that you would like to investigate further: Question 1: Question 2: Question 3:
Name: Take notes while viewing The Storm that Swept Mexico: Revolutionary Art Video Module and answer the following questions: In what art forms does the film illustrate post-revolutionary Mexican artists working? What are some common themes that artists were addressing in their work? According to the film, how are the artists using their work to shape Mexican identity and Mexican history? Give examples. How is art used as an educational tool? Why was it important that the artists were making public art? What impact did they want their work to have on Mexican society? How did they hope to effect social change?
Name: Team Members: Section 1: Using Student Handout E: Dream Key for reference, research the period in history that your section of the Diego Rivera mural A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park depicts and develop a brief description: Mural Section (Check the section your team is researching) The Spanish Conquest The Porfiriato Dictatorship The Revolution of 1910 Description: Section 2: Select two figures from your section of the mural and research who they were and their relationship to your era in history: Figure 1, Name: Description: Figure 2, Name: Description:
Name: Team Members: Section 1: Research the artist Diego Rivera and develop a brief description of his role as an artist in post-revolutionary Mexico: Description: Section 2: Research the following two figures from your section of the mural and provide a brief description of who they were and their relationship to Diego Rivera: Figure 1: La Calavera Catrina (the skeleton figure) Description: Figure 2: Frida Kahlo Description:
1. José Maria Vigil y Robles 2. Guillermo W. de Landa y Escandon 3. Jesus Lujan 4. Hernan Cortes 5. Luis de Velasco II 6. Fray Juan de Zumarraga 7. Quemadero de la Santa Inquisicion 8. Maria Violante de Carvajal 9. Iglesia de San Diego 10. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 11. Pickpocket 12. Anciano asleep 13. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna 14. Winfield Scott 15. Agustin de Iturbide 16. Pabellon Morisco 17. Old widow 18. Pelado drunk 19. Benito Juarez 20. Ignacio Manuel Altamirano 21. Ignacio Ramirez 22. Leandro Valle 23. Old ex military conservative 24. Empress Charlotte 25. Maximilian of Hapsburg 26. General Mariano Rodriguez 27. General Miguel Miramon 28. François Achille Bazaine 29. General Mariano Escobedo 30. Young Paper Vendor selling El Imparcial 31. Baloon man 32. Candy man 33. Candy vendor 34. Manuel Gutierrez Najera 35. Lucecita Diaz 36. Carmen Romero Rubio de Diaz 37. José Marti 38. Diego as a child 39. Frida Kahlo 40. Calavera Catrina 41. Ricardo Flores Magon 42. José Guadalupe Posada 43. Librado Rivera 44. Gendarme 45. Joaquin de la Cantolla y Rico 46. La Revoltosa, chiutlahua legitima 47. Nicolas Zuniga y Miranda 48. Porfirio Diaz 49. Alferez Lobo Guerrero 50. Foreign couple with two children 51. Gendarme 52. Police Department 53. Poor family 54. Young workman 55. Charro asleep 56. Fruit vendor 57. Juan Sanchez Azcona 58. Manuel Martinez 59. Self portrait. Middle class child 60. Woman selling tortas compuestas 61. Ruth Rivera Marin 62. Rosa Rolanda Covarrubias 63. Guadalupe Rivera Marin 64. Guadalupe Marin 65. Man selling darts 66. General Francisco J. Mujica 67. Lic. Izo (student of law) 68. Students of the Escuela de Aspirantes de Tlalpan 69. General Victoriano Huerta 70. General Manuel Mondragon 71. President of the Republic (plutarco Elias Calles? Miguel Aleman?) 72. Man with the hundred million 73. Modern Mexico 74. Francisco I. Madero 75. Zapatista 76. Juan Pablo. grandson of Diego Rivera