Los tres grandes indirectly helped shape U.S. cultural policy too.
In 1933, George Biddle, an artist who had spent time with Rivera in Mexico, wrote a letter to his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had recently been sworn in as president. In it, he told Roosevelt about the ways in which the Mexican government had funded the creation of murals on government buildings as a way of expressing “the social ideas of the Mexican Revolution.”
Roosevelt passed the letter along to the Treasury Department, which launched a public works project in government buildings. This was followed, a year later, by the establishment of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, a program that helped keep thousands of artists employed during the Great Depression, and resulted in the production of thousands of public murals and works of sculpture.
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by Karen Nikos-Rose
December 10, 2020
Being cooped up in your house the next few weeks need not leave you artless. Despite the lack of typical holiday shows that happen this month, you can check out these virtual plays, art shows and even cake decorating events to sooth your art-starved souls. Happy weekend! - The Arts Blog
This blog compiled by UC Davis Media Relations Intern Michelle Villagomez
LACMA contemporary art curator is Art Studio visiting artist this week
This lecture series is organized by the Department of Art and Art History and co-sponsored by the UC Davis College of Letters and Science and the Manetti Shrem Museum