Celebrating the Mexican people’s potential to craft the nation’s history was a key theme in Mexican muralism.
c. 1920 - 1960
Celebrating the Mexican people’s potential to craft the nation’s history was a key theme in Mexican muralism.
c. 1920 - 1960
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A brutal history told for a modern American city, Mexican muralism in New York
Rivera celebrates indigenous culture, but also points to poverty in this melancholy painting of a flower seller.
Why was the original version of this mural at New York’s Rockefeller Center destroyed within months of its creation?
Rivera includes 400 years of history here, and guarantees that the stories normally edited out are included.
Why was the original version of this mural at New York’s Rockefeller Center destroyed within months of its creation?
Rivera’s controversial murals were made at the height of Depression-era instability in auto-manufacturing Detroit.
Epic murals in highly visible, public buildings were commissioned by the Mexican government to teach history.