Mexican aesthetics in the vision of Samuel Ramos

Abstract

The article that follows attempts to show the notion of art from the reflection of Mexican aesthetics, underlining the emancipated character of the national plastic arts through muralism, particularly that of Diego Rivera and his search for the authenticity of what is Mexican, which is shown as a contradiction and overcoming of Egyptianism that he reflected in his rigid-passive art and other negative features pointed out in Samuel's philosophical proposal Ramos.

Regarding the different fields of culture that the Mexican philosopher, writer of The Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico, dealt with, there are several articles scattered and later published as part of his work, such as: Studies in aesthetics and Philosophy of artistic life; these works respond to an interesting analysis of which the Michoacan philosopher was no stranger in his character as an intellectual, on artistic movements and, in particular, muralism that at that time was in vogue not only in America but throughout the world, and with which Mexico enters the gallery of modern painting of world art.
We will use as support for the foundation of this reflection regarding the notions of aesthetics and art, the texts of Mario Teodoro Ramírez, Marco Arturo Toscano, Raquel Tibol, among others.