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Between 1927–1934 Orozco lived in the USA. Even after the fall of the stock market in 1929, his works were still in demand. From March to June 1930, at the invitation of the Pomona College Art Department, he painted what he noted was the "first fresco painted outside the country by a painter of the Contemporary Mexican School."The fresco, Prometheus (Prometeo del Pomona College), on the wall of a Pomona College dining hall, was direct and personal at a time when murals were e xpected to be decorous and decorative, and has been called the first "modern" fresco in the United States.[8] Later that year, he painted murals at the New School for Social Research, New York City, now known as the New School University. One of his most famous murals is The Epic of American Civilization at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. It was painted between 1932 and 1934 and covers almost 300 m² (3200 square feet) in 24 panels. Its parts include: "Migrations", ...

The Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución mexicana), also known as the Mexican Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil mexicana), was a major armed struggle, lasting roughly from 1910 to 1920, that radically transformed Mexican culture and government. Although recent research has focused on local and regional aspects of the Revolution, it was a genuinely national revolution. Its outbreak in 1910 resulted from the failure of the 35-year-long regime of Porfirio Díaz to find a manage d solution to the presidential succession. This meant there was a political crisis among competing elites and the opportunity for agrarian insurrection. Wealthy landowner Francisco I. Madero challenged Díaz in the 1910 presidential election, and following the rigged results, revolted under the Plan of San Luis Potosí.[6] Armed conflict ousted Díaz from power; a new election was held in 1911, bringing Madero to the presidency. The origins of the conflict were broadly based in opposition to the Díaz regime, with...

Federico Cantú & Luis Ortiz Monasterio En 1928 dos jóvenes artistas se instalaron en Los Ángeles California , la idea de triunfar en un foro internacional parecía rezón de sobra para tan prometedora carrera , si bien el inicio no fue nada fácil, el 29 fue poco mas que fatal  al grado de que  para 1930 Monasterio ya radicaba en México y Cantú regresaba ha re hacer su Atelier en Paris.   Decía Cantú -  vivíamos ese tiempo con mucha pasión pero la verdad es que éramos todos aspirantes a morirnos de hambre,  Llegue a Francia a los 16 años, de chico es cuando uno cree más en las metas – recuerdo que fueron muy gentiles conmigo los viejos, me enseñaron además de las mañas de andar tras las viejas y el alcohol , mucho del criterio de ellos. amigos como José Decrefft , Mateo  Hernández , Ginés Parra y por supuesto Don Alfonso Reyes. El cual  me decía , “la única manera de ser provechosamente nacional consiste en ser generosament...