Man at the Crossroads - Wikipedia
Man at the Crossroads (1933) was a fresco by Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Originally slated to be installed in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City, the fresco showed aspects of contemporary social and scientific culture. As originally installed, it was a three- paneled artwork.
Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera
Man at the Crossroads was a fresco by Diego Rivera in the Rockefeller Center, New York. The painting was controversial because it included an image of Lenin and a Soviet Russian May Day parade. Despite protests from artists, Nelson Rockefeller ordered its destruction before it …
Destroyed By Rockefellers, Diego Rivera Mural Trespassed On ... - NPR
2014年3月9日 · When Mexican artist Diego Rivera was commissioned in 1932 to do a mural in the middle of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, some might have wondered whether industrialist tycoon John D....
La historia del mural de Diego Rivera en el Rockefeller Center …
2020年6月4日 · Fiel a la ideología que defendió hasta su muerte, Diego Rivera imaginó un mural que plasmaba los dos sistemas económicos que marcaron el siglo XX: el socialismo y el capitalismo. A partir de la comparación entre ambos modos de producción, Rivera dividió la obra en dos partes, separadas en el centro por un obrero que controla una máquina ...
Diego Rivera, Man at the Crossroads - Smarthistory
The most notorious controversy of his career came as he painted Man at the Crossroads, the mural for Rockefeller Center’s Radio Corporation of America (RCA) building in 1933 (the fresco that he later based Man, Controller of the Universe on).
The Real Reason Why Rivera’s Epic Rockefeller Mural Was
2021年2月16日 · Nelson Rockefeller’s tearing down of Diego Rivera’s communist mural Man at the Crossroads at the RCA was not politically motivated, but due to a building technicality. Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe (a copy of Man at the Crossroads, painted in 1934)
Diego Rivera: The Controversial Story of Man at the Crossroads
2023年5月29日 · At the suggestion of his mother, Nelson Rockefeller commissioned Diego Rivera, a passionate Mexican socialist artist, to paint the mural that was going to decorate the ground floor of the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
Diego Rivera's Rockefeller Center Mural — City Beautiful Blog
2020年10月5日 · Diego Rivera, a prominent Mexican painter and giant of 20th century art, was commissioned by the Rockefellers to create a monumental fresco for the lobby of the newly-built RCA building, the largest structure of Rockefeller Center.
Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads - PBS
In 1932, she convinces her husband, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to commission a Rivera mural for the lobby of the soon-to-be-completed Rockefeller Center in New York City. Flush from...
Diego Rivera | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
Photograph shows Diego Rivera painting his mural "Man at the Crossroads" at Rockefeller Center, New York, which was controversial and finally destroyed.1933. Library of Congress. He was a...