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COMPLETE ARTICLEMexican, Indian, Mexico, cultures, arts, Spanish, church, influence, history, artists, symbolism, modern, sensibility, Creole, vision, Spaniards, traditions, continuity, architecture, country, heritage, aesthetics, painting, Europe, Christian structures, Mexican design, life, manifesto, allegories, painters.Summary:
The influence of Mexican design on Christian work has been the subject of much controversy.
Bernard Bevan in the "History of Spanish Architecture" claimed that the influence of Mexican designs was practically negligible in Mexico and whatever seemed that way was due to "poor Indian workmanship".
In fact, although the wonderful geometric textile designs and superb figures of the indigenous people were not directly applied to the Christian structures, the spirit and symbolism that gave rise to the ancient work is on the Christian structures.
Frescoes, used for ornamentation of church interiors throughout the 15th and 16th century by the Spaniards, coincided with the surface patterning that was characteristic of the different Indian cultures.
The event was marked by the Creole (Mexicans descended from pure Spanish blood) adoption of an Indian event -- the appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Indian Juan Diego on a site associated with the worship of the Aztec goddess, Tonantzin.
It was the first time that a vision by a native American was assimilated into the consciousness of the conquering people and the first symbol of a unified, emerging Mexican culture.
Born in 1757 and educated in the severe discipline of the Spanish Academy of San Carlos, he felt it his duty to cleanse Mexico of its "incorrect" Mexican sensibility.
The church paid heavily for its control and repression, but the arts also suffered since the church had always been its main supporter and patron.
A group of artists got together and published a manifesto in which they wrote "even the smallest manifestations of the material or spiritual vitality of our race spring from our native midst".
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