Artistic ideas come and go, but they alwyas shape and build our
history and influence people’s ideologies and perspective.
“Chicano art is in a most general way a community art form that
expresses the experiences, feelings, ideas, and aspirations of
both a very real and ideal Chicano community” 1. In the United
States, the Chicano community presents in its various ideas of
gender, spirituality, religion, urban space, immigration issues
and shared history of its cultural origins. The Chicano Art
Movement originated from Mexican Americans’ frustration, inner
necessity, and resistance for basic human and distinctive
cultural rights of a once neglected country. Chicano art has its
origins in the Chicano civil rights movement which culminated in
1969. Although the national and cultural birth of Chicanos is
Mexican, the fact that Chicanos are born and live in the United
States adopting American cultural values and qualities, makes
them singular from Mexican and Mexican immigrants who choose to
maintain clear with t