Diego Rivera: Murals, Marx, and a Life Larger Than Life
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This week on pplpod, we explore the colossal life and legacy of Diego Rivera (1886–1957), the Mexican painter whose massive frescoes helped establish the mural movement on an international stage,. We trace his artistic evolution from his early experiments with Cubism in Europe to his return to Mexico, where he painted stories of society and the 1910 Revolution on the walls of public buildings,,.
Join us as we discuss:
• The Masterpieces: From the Detroit Industry Murals to the famous Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park, featuring the icon La Calavera Catrina,.
• The Controversy: The dramatic story behind Man at the Crossroads, the mural commissioned for Rockefeller Center that was destroyed because Rivera refused to remove a portrait of Vladimir Lenin,.
• The Romances: His volatile personal life, including his four marriages and his passionate, tumultuous relationship with fellow artist Frida Kahlo, whom he married twice,,.
• The Politics and Philosophy: His role in the Mexican Communist Party, his hosting of the exiled Leon Trotsky, and his outspoken atheism,.
• The Myths: Rivera’s strange and factually suspect claim in his autobiography that he once engaged in cannibalism.
From his Jewish converso roots to his exploration of the occult with AMORC, dive into the history of the artist whose work the Mexican government declared monumentos históricos,,.