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Secretariat of Public Education Murals

Rivera, Diego
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Alternative Title
Secretaría de Educación Pública Murals
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/104845
Date
1923-1928
Description
Wall Street Banquet (El banquette de los ricos), detail. 2.05 x 1.55 m. Court of Fiestas, Corrido of the Agrarian Revolution, Level 3, North Wall; In 1923 he began work with a team of artists on the walls of the two three-storey patios of the new Secretariat of Education building in Mexico City. He soon assumed sole responsibility for the entire project, creating over a hundred fresco panels by 1928, covering over 1585 sq. m. Of these, The Mine and Embrace and Peasants (both 1923), in the Court of Labour, combine the stylistic influence of Giotto with Mexican folk themes, while one of the last, the Distributing Arms [En el Arsenal] panel (1928), which displays all the characteristics of his mature mural style, introduces the great series known as the Corrida [or Ballad] of the Proletarian Revolution, on the third storey of the buildings surrounding the Court of Fiestas. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/5/2008)
Type of Work
fresco (painting)
Subject
caricatures or satire, cycles or series, historical, Nationalism and communism, Revolutionaries, Mexican Muralist, Twentieth century
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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