The Leonard Lopate Show: Diego Rivera's Murals at MoMA

Diego Rivera's Murals at MoMA

Curator Leah Dickerman discusses the murals and career of Diego Rivera. “Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art” is on view at MoMA through May 14. The exhibition features murals, which are up to six feet by eight feet in size and weigh as much as 1,000 pounds, made of frescoed plaster, concrete, and steel. There are also three working drawings, a “portable mural” made in 1930, and smaller prints, watercolors, and drawings.

Diego Rivera. Agrarian Leader Zapata, 1931.

Fresco on reinforced cement in a galvanized-steel framework, 93 ¾ x 74” (238.1 x 188 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund.

Diego Rivera. Cartoon for Agrarian Leader Zapata. 1931.

Charcoal on paper, 98 3/8 x 78” (250 x 198 cm). Private collection, Mexico.

Diego Rivera. Indian Warrior. 1931.

Fresco on reinforced cement in a metal framework, 41 x 52 ½” (104.14 x 133.35 cm). Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. Purchased with the Winthrop Hillyer Fund SC 1934:8-1.

Diego Rivera. Pneumatic Drill (cartoon for Pneumatic Drilling). 1931.

Charcoal on paper, 97 1/4x 76 7/8 (247 x 195.2 cm). Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico.

Diego Rivera. The Uprising. 1931.

Fresco on reinforced cement in a galvanized-steel framework, 74 x 94 1/8” (188 x 239 cm). Private collection, Mexico

Diego Rivera. Electric Power. 1931-32.

Fresco on reinforced cement in a galvanized-steel framework, 58 1/16 x 94 1/8” (147.5 x 239 cm). Private collection, Mexico

Diego Rivera. Frozen Assets. 1931-32.

Fresco on reinforced cement in a galvanized-steel framework, 94 1/8 x 74 3/16 in (239 x 188.5 cm). Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico

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Vladimir from Siberia

This man was communist No?

Dec. 08 2011 09:00 PM

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Neil Shneider

Dickerman, not Dickerson, Mr. Lopate.

Dec. 08 2011 01:24 PM

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Deunen

Beautiful

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