ABSTRACT
The theorists who had denounced our paintings as politically useless now took a different tack. They began to accuse our murals of being academic and backward, arguing that they were far removed from the "civilized" painting that was being done in Europe. Art cannot break down the barriers which society erects, except in a relative way, as is the case of the monumental painting of Mexico. Public art had disappeared several centuries before, and its techniques were forgotten. Mural painting, as a collective movement, had been extinct since the end of the Renaissance. The artist creates for man, it is class that determines art. The true artist creates for everyone, but the rich man hides art away wherever he pleases. This fact determines many aspects of art. The painters who were members of the union met and discussed the problem, and unfortunately students split. Corruption had appeared.
