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...height of the outbreak Spanish Fascist José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of the late Dictator, offered the Government 1,500 trained men to help suppress it. Though politely declined, Spanish wiseacres found that offer the most significant in the entire affray. Rumor would not down that the entire uprising was backed not by Radicals but by Royalists and Fascists in an effort to throw the acknowledged Rightist swing of Spanish voters behind an open dictatorship...
...Communist Opposition headquarters, to an oblong lecture room. There from door to door ran a set of 21 heavy, richly-colored fresco panels, a present to Communism by a man generally acknowledged to be the world's greatest muralist-Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta...
When his great fresco for Rockefeller Center was rejected, paid for and boarded up (TIME, May 22), Diego Rivera took his $14,000 and offered to reproduce the subject free for any one who would give him wall space. The New Workers took him up.* But since Communist workers have no walls to match those of the Capitalist Rockefellers the original scheme had to be dropped. What Artist Rivera made instead was a cartoon strip, a panorama of civilization in the U. S. as seen through Communist eyes from the landing of the Pilgrims and the liquidation of the Indians...
Conservative critics found their usual faults with Rivera's work-a lack of coordination between the various sections, a terrific overcrowding of the individual pictures with figures and incidents. What no one realized until he actually saw the frieze was the effective propaganda Artist Rivera could make when freed from the necessities of Capitalist contracts. Biased as a princess slip though they were, the 21 fresco panels made the most exciting show of the season...
...reception last week to inspect the panels and to speed Artist Rivera back to Mexico, Critic Walter Pach spoke feelingly behind his great mustache: "Diego Rivera has given artists in this country a great example of artistic integrity." Added Artist John Sloan: "These are the first examples of an inspired, fired man's mural art in this country...