1. Quiz question for Tuesday:
Using at least five (fully identified) works of art as examples, write a 20-minute essay on the most significant art ideas and objects we have studied since the last quiz (on Futurism). Show what you have learned from the assigned readings, 3 videos, and lectures.

2. The Mexican Mural Movement
Los tres grandes: Diego Rivera,
David Siquieros, José Orozco

3. Mexican Revolution 1910-1920 Jose Vasconcelos (1882- 1959)
Álvaro Obregón (1880–1928)
Soldiers
Emiliano Zapata ( )
Pancho Villa ( )

4. Diego Rivera (Mexican, ) The Architect, 1914 (right) Compare Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians, 1921 Synthetic Cubism
Diego Rivera, The Architect,

5. “I recognized and accepted Picasso’s mastery in Cubism from the beginning. I readily proclaimed myself Picasso’s disciple. I do not believe it possible fo any painter after Picasso not to have been influenced by him in some degree.”
- Diego Rivera
My Art, My Life

6. Diego Rivera, Zapatista Landscape – The Guerilla, 1915

7. Rivera, Creation, 1922-23, encaustic (used blow torch) & gold leaf,
Diego Rivera, Creation, , encaustic and gold leaf, Antiteatro Bolivar, Nat. Prep. School, Mexico City
Rivera, Creation, , encaustic (used blow torch) & gold leaf,
National Preparatory School, Mexico City.

8. Courtyard of the Ministry of Education, Mexico City

9. Rivera at the Education Ministry, Mexico City,
Rivera, 1st floor Ministry of Ed, Mexico City
Rivera at the Education Ministry, Mexico City,
with one of his murals, 1924

10. Rivera, Wall Street Banquet and Night of the Rich, frescos,
Rivera, Wall Street Banquet, 1928, fresco, 2nd floor, Ministry of Education, MC
Rivera, Wall Street Banquet and Night of the Rich, frescos,
Ministry of Education, Mexico City,

11. Rivera, Liberation of the Peon, 1931, fresco on board, Philadelphia MA
Diego Rivera, Liberation of the Peon
Rivera, Liberation of the Peon, 1931, fresco on board, Philadelphia MA

12. Rivera, (left) with Frida Kahlo, 1930
Diego Rivera, The Protest, 1928, fresco, Nat. Prep. School, Mexico City
Rivera, (left) with Frida Kahlo, 1930
The Protest 1928, fresco, detail, west wall courtyard
Mexico City Ministry of Education

13. Compare Rivera, Protest, fresco, Mexico City, 1923 and Giotto, Mourning of Christ, c. 1305, fresco, Cappella dell'Arena, Padua

14. "Giotto was a propagandist of the spirit of Christianity, the weapon of the Franciscan monks of his time against feudal oppression, Bruegel [Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, C ] was a propagandist of the struggle of the Dutch artisan petty bourgeoisie against feudal oppression. Every artist who has been worth anything has been a propagandist. . . I want to be a propagandist of Communism and I want to be it in all that I can think, in all that I can speak, in all that I can write, and in all that I can paint. I want to use my art as a weapon. . ."
The Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art, Diego Rivera, 1932

15. Rivera, May Day Moscow, 1928, watercolor

16. Rivera, May Day Moscow, 1928, watercolor

17. Rivera, Palace of Cortes, overview
Rivera, The History of Cuernavaca and Morelos, fresco, , Cortez Palace, Cuernavaca, Mexico

18. Rivera, The History of Cuernavaca and Morelos, fresco, detail, , Cortez Palace, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Rivera, Palace of Cortes mural (detail)

19. Rivera, Detroit Industry, fresco, 1933, Detroit Institute of Arts, north wall
Rivera, Detroit Industry, , The Detroit Institute of Arts

20. Detroit Industry south wall
Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry (south wall), , Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit Industry south wall

21. Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, fresco, 1934, Originally for Rockefeller Center, Recreated for the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City
Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe (detail) 1934, fresco, Museo del Palacio de Belas Artes, Mexico City (INBA)

22. Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, fresco, 1934, objectionable details of Lenin (left) and Trotsky (right)
Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe (detail with Lenin), 1933, fresco

23. L-R André Breton, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky, in Mexico, 1939
Trotsky, Rivera, Breton
L-R André Breton, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky, in Mexico, 1939

24. Rivera, The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, 1931, San Francisco Art Institute
Diego Rivera, San Francisco Institute fresco, 1930

25. Diego Rivera San Francisco Institute fresco with Taylor

26. Rivera, Pan-American Unity: The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and South of this Continent, City College of San Francisco, 1940
Diego Rivera, San Francisco City College fresco

27. SF City College fresco detail
Diego Rivera, SF City College fresco detail
SF City College fresco detail

28. David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican, ) at work on Tropical America, Oliveras Street, Los Angeles, 1932, fresco applied with air gun on cement, 19.7 ft x 98.4 ft

29. Siqueiros, Tropical America, dedicated October 9, 1932 and whitewashed
Siqueiros, Tropical America Fresco in 1930
Siqueiros, Tropical America, dedicated October 9, 1932 and whitewashed
less than a year later. Forgotten for years and rediscovered in the late 1960s
when the whitewash began to peel off. First outdoor mural and prototype for
muralism of the 1960s. Getty restoration is stalled.

30. Siqueiros, Revolutionary on a Horse, 1957 Fresco, Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico City

31. David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937 Duco on wood with applied sections, 48 x 36 NYC MoMA
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937, enamel on wood, 48/36” NYC MoMA

32. Jose Clemente Orozco (Mexican, ) The Trench, fresco, National Prep. School, Mexico City
Jose Clemente Orozco, The Trench, fresco, National Prep. School, Mexico City

33. Jose Clemente Orozco, The Franciscan, 1930, lithograph, NYC MoMA

34. Jose Clemente Orozco, Zapatistas, 1931, 45/55” o/c, NYC MoMA

35. Jose Clemente Orozco, Prometheus, 1930, tempera on masonite, 61 cm,
Jose Clemente Orozco, Prometheus, 1960, tempera on masonite 61 cm, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. A version of the mural painted the same year for Pomona College, California
Jose Clemente Orozco, Prometheus, 1930, tempera on masonite, 61 cm,
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. A version of the mural painted the same
year for Pomona College, California

36. Orozco, Prometheus mural, Pomona College, 1930

37. Orozco, two panels from Dartmouth College fresco, (left) Ancient Human Sacrifice and (right) Gods of the Modern World, 1932

38. Orozco, Hispanoamerica & Angloamerica, panels of American Civilization fresco panels, , Dartmouth College Library, New Hampshire
Jose Clemente Orozco, Hispanoamerica & Angloamerica, fresco, , Dartmouth, New Hampshire

39. Orozco, The Expulsion of Quetzalcoatl (detail), American Civilization
Quetzalcoatl in human
form, Codex Borbonicus
Jose Clemente Orozco, The Expulsion of Quetzalcoatl (detail), fresco, Dartmouth,
Orozco, The Expulsion of Quetzalcoatl (detail), American Civilization
Fresco panel, Dartmouth College Library, New Hampshire