Diego Rivera Murals at MoMA

The Diego Rivera Murals exhibition gathers together most of the eight murals Rivera painted on-site for the Museum of Modern Art in 1931. Although each weighs more than 1000 pounds (it took six men to move a single fresco during the original show), they are suprisingly little (only about seven feet tall). Their power comes not from size, therefore, but from didacticism --- this is art with a message, and the message isn't a good one. To put it into today's terms, Rivera painted for the 99%, even though he was usually paid by the 1%.      

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