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...Diego Rivera, famed artist and theorizer, blamed it all on the dry season, in Aztec times a period devoted to human sacrifice...
...lifes, etc. were considered mere frilly decoration. In 1922 Mexico's Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors put the Mexican doctrine in writing, publicly repudiated "art for art's sake," and pledged themselves to paint murals "for the people." Among signers were Mexico's big three: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. Backed by the world's most art-conscious Government, they made a slambang success...
...three, Diego Rivera, now 58, contributed a modest, cleverly patterned water color entitled Indian Mother and Children. Last year he climbed down from his mural scaffoldings to paint sexy nudes for Mexico City's swank nightclub, Giro's. Now he is doing a vast historical mural for Mexico's National Palace. Siqueiros, in the most traditionally political painting displayed, showed a mountainous Indian girl clasping a field of oil wells to her bosom. Patriotically entitled Sunrise of Mexico, it has already been snapped up by International Business Machines Corp...
...kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed and rich in color harmonies. In 1937 Mérida got tired of pure abstractionism, and began combining it with vaguely recognizable shapes. Some critics now think The Big Three of Latin American art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros) is really a foursome...
...peace (a farmer with oxen, a mother with child) v. the horror of war (symbolized by skeletons and Franklin Roosevelt's quotation, "I hate war"). Although the murals were now open for inspection by his Mexican peers, Orozco had "no time" to see them, and Fellow Muralist Diego Rivera was "too busy" painting some of his own in the National Palace (just across the street) to take a look. Biddle felt sure that an attack on his murals which appeared in the newspaper Excelsior, under the nom de plume "jurinto," was really written by Rivera. But Biddle, who felt...