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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1923-1928 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorRivera, Diegoen_US
dc.date1923-1928en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-27T16:03:46Z
dc.date.available2013-02-27T16:03:46Z
dc.date.issued1923-1928en_US
dc.identifier197347en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1607en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/104855
dc.descriptionThe Learned (Los sabios), detail. 2.07 x 1.53 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)en_US
dc.format.mediumpigment on plasteren_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectcaricatures or satireen_US
dc.subjectcycles or seriesen_US
dc.subjecthistoricalen_US
dc.subjectNationalism and communismen_US
dc.subjectRevolutionariesen_US
dc.subjectMexican Muralisten_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleSecretariat of Public Education Muralsen_US
dc.title.alternativeSecretaría de Educación Pública Muralsen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode6A1-RD-SE-2-G2en_US
vra.culturalContextMexicanen_US
vra.techniquefresco painting (technique)en_US
vra.worktypefresco (painting)en_US
dc.contributor.displayDiego Rivera (Mexican painter, 1886-1957)en_US


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