The headquarters of the Ministry of Education (SEP) building is considered National Heritage , located in the Historic Center #CDMX , is home to the murals of Diego Rivera and other great muralists, besides its constant expansion absorbing other buildings around it .
“Crossing lives”
The main building, with access from the street Republic of Argentina No. 28 corresponds to the land previously intended Convent of the Incarnation , which has only left the chapel, which is now known as the Latin American Library . This building is located just minutes from the Zocalo, besides its colonial buildings filled environment makes it unique.
"Huevo Taxi" next to the SEP Building the atmosphere of a Colonial city.
The history of this building begins after being appointed first Secretary of Public Education, Jose Vasconcelos, in 1921. Determined to fulfill in the best way with the goals of the Ministry of Education, Jose Vasconcelos expressed the need for a suitable building for the initial three departments: School, Library and the Fine Arts Department. The building should be projection of the institution, which will reflect the "complex moral work, vast and" they represented.
"Guardian´s at the entrance door."
"Everybody find their own place"
"The City of Palaces" required one more, now dedicated to a very important task: The Education of Mexicans. Thus, as then the President of the Republic, General Alvaro Obregon, immediately access its construction, was inaugurated on July 9, 1922. However, Vasconcelos still unconvinced that the building will perform his vision, decides to invite the muralist Diego Rivera to shape its walls. Rivera, famous for performing works of high social content and its communist ideology, chooses to decorate the walls with various scenes of national life, using the fresco technique.
"Diego Rivera was painting this mural when he met Frida Kahlo and she call him viejo panzón"
"Peace between / obreros y campesinos"
"A break between past and present" at Patio Central.
"Bewtween Vasconcelos and Jaime Torres Bodet"
The big project takes six years to complete, begins in 1923 and ends in 1928. Upon project completion, Vasconcelos was pleased with the murals accordance with the ideas of the time, life and customs of the Mexican people are reflected : its history represented in the figures of distinguished men and women, but also in the form of ordinary people.
La Maestra / The teacher mural.
The murals are full of everyday scenes, they move to the representations of grandiloquent concepts.
Dia de Muertos / Deaths Day
"Walking thru history"
"Un paseo por Xochimilco"
The speech representative of the walls of this building, both Diego Rivera, as Clemente Orozco, is channeled in the right place at the historic moment that was lived in the country after a few years of the revolution. Therefore, the spirit of the time was "We are founding the origins of a nation," is why the seat of the body responsible for public education should convey pictorial way the cultural past of the country's population.
This is the only mural where Frida Kalo is shown at the SEP building.
"Water man delivery"
"Las Piñatas" Los opresores.
View from the second floor as they were holding a meeting with de Secretary of Education.
Second floor, history of Revolution.
"Facing the past as I restore the present"
"El pueblo oprimido"
Guia observing details.
Do not forget to mention the walls and ceilings of the Royal Customs illustrated by muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. They excel thanks to strong impressionistic style of the author, in addition to its large size and immensity. Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera was within this line of total commitment to social causes, his works were always consciously linked with the old Mexican traditions, violent dynamism and wide bill, capturing it in his paintings with impressive realism.
Clemente Orozco´s demons.
"Exiting door"
These murals, no doubt, as the building deserve that you take the proper time to visit and observe them carefully, and with them our cultural past reflections.
Soreya Reyes
STREET LIFE AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
STREET LIFE AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
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