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- - - - Developed after the Mexican Revolution (1920s–1940s)
      - Public murals used to educate and unite the population
      - Addressed history, class struggle, Indigenous identity, and revolution
      - Key figures include Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros
  - - - -Conscious constructivism, emphasis on the choices the artist makes in construction of the work
      - -All construction is inherently related to human form. They believe it should be immediately clear what materials and medium you have used in a work by observing. Emphasizing handmade construction.
  - - - Nazi term for modern art deemed immoral or un-German and targeted movements like Expressionism, Cubism, and Dada.
      - Artists were censored, exiled, or persecuted. The 1937 exhibition weaponized art as propaganda
    - - Developed in early 20th-century Europe, led by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
      - Breaks objects into fragmented geometric forms and multiple viewpoints
      - Rejects traditional perspective to emphasize structure and perception
      - Explores the tension between representation and abstraction
    - - Emerged in the 1920s, influenced by Freud’s theories of the unconscious
      - Explores dreams, desire, memory, and irrational imagery
      - Uses unexpected juxtapositions and symbolic forms
      - Sought to liberate thought from rational and social constraints
- - - - -An era of flourishing Black art, literature, dance and artistic culture overall. Though many of the artists and writers now thought of as essential members of the Harlem Renaissance were not from Harlem or New York City, such as W.E.B Du Bois and Alain Locke, but contributed nonetheless and were drawn in to the vibrant Black artistic culture present at the time.
      - -What defined the Harlem Renaissance was the thought that surrounded it, bold expressions of Black joy, life, success without the care of white approval or acceptance. Artists such as the photographer James Van Der Zee, documenting all Black life in New York from funerary portraits, wedding portraits, portraits of queer life, young couples, and so forth. This brings another point of the movement forward, it was not for a particular type of Black person or a type of Black art. All styles of art, drawing from many traditions using many mediums is celebrated and artists of different backgrounds, genders and sexualities are all part of the conversation
      - They say, "What is the use of your fighting and complaining; do the great thing and the reward is there." And many colored people are all too eager to follow this advice; especially those who weary of the eternal struggle along the color line, who are afraid to fight and to whom the money of philanthropists and the alluring publicity are subtle and deadly bribes. They say, "What is the use of fighting? Why not show simply what we deserve and let the reward come to us?" W.E.B DuBois, “Criteria of Negro Art” Page 3, Section 16
    - - Produced under British colonial rule (18th–early 20th century)
      - Includes Company Painting, academic realism, and nationalist revival styles
      - Negotiated tensions between imperial aesthetics and indigenous traditions
      - Later artists, like Amrita Sher-Gil, used art to reclaim cultural identity and resist colonial narratives
- - - - Art responding to independence and the legacy of British colonialism
      - Combines Indigenous traditions with modern and global practices
      - Addresses identity, nationalism, memory, and political power
      - Includes movements such as the Zaria Art Society and contemporary conceptual practices
      - “This is our age of enquiries and reassessment of our cultural values. This is our renaissance era! In our quest for truth we must be firm, confident and joyful because of our newly won freedom.” Natural Synthesis Uche Okeke