There is something touching about Rivera's documenting of the private activities of individuals with the public parades featuring so many faceless people. Another example of history on the run.
I agree with you: it is "a beautiful testament to a particular human experience." It would have really liked to have seen those notebook pages at the MoMA exhibit. Thanks for sharing them here!
While Rivera himself was a less than perfect human (in regards to how he treated his loved ones.), at least his idealistic work was way to make up for that by showing the type of humanity which we should all strive for. It's a shame that so few leaders follow that lead. I've often wondered what Rivera would have thought about how Soviet Russia turned for the worse under Stalin and successive leaders, as well as how Mexico's PRI became a cesspool of corruption over its 71 years.
Art: brilliant. Politics: questionable but looked like a worthwhile experiment at the time.
Marxism was something different before Marxism-Leninism, and worse yet Stalinism and now Putinism. Descent into authoritarianism and thuggery.
There is something touching about Rivera's documenting of the private activities of individuals with the public parades featuring so many faceless people. Another example of history on the run.
I agree with you: it is "a beautiful testament to a particular human experience." It would have really liked to have seen those notebook pages at the MoMA exhibit. Thanks for sharing them here!
From monumental to sizes of a pocket sketch is as good as great subjective experience caught on moments shared.
While Rivera himself was a less than perfect human (in regards to how he treated his loved ones.), at least his idealistic work was way to make up for that by showing the type of humanity which we should all strive for. It's a shame that so few leaders follow that lead. I've often wondered what Rivera would have thought about how Soviet Russia turned for the worse under Stalin and successive leaders, as well as how Mexico's PRI became a cesspool of corruption over its 71 years.
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