Mexican Muralism

Diego Rivera, Calla Lily Seller (Vendedora de Alcatraces), 1942, oil on masonite (collection of Banco Nacional de Mexico, Mexico City) — Rivera celebrates indigenous culture, but also points to poverty in this melancholy painting of a flower seller.

Diego Rivera, Calla Lilly Vendor (Vendedora de ...

Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe (or Man in the Time Machine), 1934, fresco, 4.85 x 11.45 m in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City — Why was the original version of this mural at New York’s Rockefeller Center destroyed within months of its creation?

Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe

Diego Rivera, detail with the artist as a young man (lower left), the paintier Frida Kahlo (behind him), and La Catrina (the Skeleton), Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park (Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central), 1947, 4.8 x 15 m (Museo Mural Diego Rivera, originally, Hotel del Prado, Mexico City) — Rivera includes 400 years of history here, and guarantees that the stories normally edited out are included.

Diego Rivera, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon ...

Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe (or Man in the Time Machine), 1934, fresco, 4.85 x 11.45 m in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City — Why was the original version of this mural at New York’s Rockefeller Center destroyed within months of its creation?

Diego Rivera, Man at the Crossroads

Diego M. Rivera Detroit Industry, North Wall, 1932-1933 fresco — Rivera’s controversial murals were made at the height of Depression-era instability in auto-manufacturing Detroit.

Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry Murals

Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe (or Man in the Time Machine), 1934, fresco, 4.85 x 11.45 m in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City — Epic murals in highly visible, public buildings were commissioned by the Mexican government to teach history.

Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes—David Alfaro Siqueiros, ...