Western Painting - Folk Art - The Cultural Pulse of Mexico and America

Western Painting includes the art forms originatedThis article picks up the best wings of Western
in European countries. Folk Art is the subtle andFolk Painting, American and Mexican.
traditional art form that emerges out of a rural orMexican Folk Paintings: Mexican Folk Art though
country scene. It has a naïve enduring stylewestern, is mingled with ancient Indian tribe
that captures the simplicity and innocence of theculture and Spanish traditions. Every single region
places, people, or things. Western Folk Paintings,in Mexico has its own artistic side, handed down
as the name suggests, depict the rich culturalthrough ancestry. Some Mexican Folk Painting
grandeur of Europe and Americas. Western Folktypes are:
Art has many fascinating features and canBark Painting: Also known as Papel Amate, Bark
wondrously depict the rich colorful naturalPainting originated from the Guerrero Mountains of
landscapes, green forests, and life at the localMexico. These paintings are specialty art works of
level. Renowned western artists, such as Goya,skilled Nahua Indians.
Picasso, and Rembrandt derived heavy inspirationsClay Paintings: Mexican Clay Folk Paintings are
from Western Folk Art. American Art is especiallyusually done with and on pottery, plaques, and
prolific and notable. Famous Mexican and Americanclay masks. The themes here are varied, spanning
artists use many types of canvas or bases suchfrom a general village life to their gala festivals
as wood or handmade tiles, to display their talent.and rituals.