Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They might have destroyed it except that: 1) the hotel is government-owned and its murals cannot be altered without approval of the three-man committee on mural paintings; 2) the committee consists of Siqueiros, Orozco and Rivera...
Before he dies, Rivera may well add sculpture to his talents and triumphs, just as he may well get himself into more political rumpuses. After all his travels, however, Diego knows where home is. Happily fingering and musing over his pre-Cortesian sculptures, he looks like one of the statues himself-big-bellied, self-contained, benign, timeless...
...Rivera considers it more important than any of his paintings: "I have always wanted to do architecture, and this could be the beginning of a new architectural tradition in Mexico-part Aztec, part Mayan, and also my own." It is ages removed from the Italian-marble Palace of Fine Arts, ten miles distant...
...downstairs part will serve as a museum for Rivera's pre-Cortesian sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through...
...Rivera is building the temple by hand, and by inches, with five Indian helpers, putting into it a good part of the money he gets for his easel paintings. Upstairs will be a studio for himself and atop that a thatched, high-gabled roof in the Mayan style. He hopes to do some sculptures himself after he has moved in, to decorate the outside of the building. "But I have not much time," he says matter-of-factly. "Before I finish...