In 1959, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (today the Dallas Museum of Art) held a landmark exhibition featuring the works of seventy-two artists from ten South American countries. Organized and curated by Director Jerry Bywaters and Cuban art critic and writer José Gómez Sicre, South American Art Today marked a significant moment in the Museum’s history and a significant shift in the Museum’s acquisition and exhibiting philosophies.

The cinematograph was well received by Mexican society from the arrival of the Lumière brothers’ emissaries to Mexico in 1896. The first Mexican cameramen and filmmakers appeared soon after. With the beginning of the armed movement in 1910 against the 30-year dictatorship of Mexican president Porfirio Díaz, a new chapter in film history was written. The first revolution recorded in the 20th century drove Mexican and foreign filmmakers to document its main protagonists, such as Francisco I.

The impact of work by Los Tres Grandes, or the “Big Three,” extended beyond the art world in Mexico, giving rise to movements in other countries, including the United States. After 1929, the United States sank into economic depression and sought solutions for high unemployment rates. President Franklin D.

The fame and visibility of the Mexican School of Painting, represented by the “Big Three,” often overshadowed other art movements. One of the most avant-garde movements of the time was stridentism, led by poet and public servant Manuel Maples Arce. One evening in December 1921, student and poet Manuel Maples Arce papered walls in Mexico City with his Manifesto actual núm.