The 365 Artworks of Diego Rivera

Detroit Industry is a series of 27 murals depicting industry, painted on the walls of the Ford Motor Company, and was considered by Rivera to be his best work. Whereas some of the panels depict workers in the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant, other panels illustrate all areas of industry, includ...

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His first government-commissioned mural, Creation was created over the course of a year and covers over a thousand square feet. The figures in the mural are over twelve feet high, which were in proportion to the huge pipe organ which surrounded the wall. Although it was widely popular, Rivera felt t...

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This work Is the central panel of a series of mural paintings, /

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The tradition of celebrating the dead on the 1st and 2nd of November (All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day) originated in pre-Hispanic Mexico and was maintained in modified form during the Colonial period, eventually developing into the festivity we are familiar with today. It consists of setting up a...

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Rivera stirred up controversy yet again when he was commissioned to create Man at the Crossroads for the Rockefeller Center in 1933. He was chosen to complete a mural on the first floor of the Rockefeller Center, with the theme of man at the crossroads, looking to the hope of a new and better future...

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The tradition of celebrating the dead on the 1st and 2nd of November (All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day) originated in pre-Hispanic Mexico and was maintained in modified form during the Colonial period, eventually developing into the festivity we are familiar with today. It consists of setting up a...

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