Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Diego Rivera Detroit Industry Mural - DIA
One of the most amazing features at the Detroit Institute of Art's is this mural depicting Detroit's auto. industry by Diego Rivera. It was completed in 11 months between April 1932 and March 1933. Commissioned by Edsel Ford (son of Henry Ford), it portrayed workers of different races working together along with some other touchy subject matter. Rivera even snuck himself into the paintings (hint...he's wearing a bowler).
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4 comments:
I love Diego !!!!!!! Matt you're the nest !!!!
It's an amazing mural...you have to come one day to see it!
thanks for sharing with all of us ....at least there's some nice building left in Detroit ......
Fantastic post.
And you seem to jump out from the painting.
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