Their murals are recognized internationally and stand out for their monumentality, using the realism social as the protagonist, reflecting a very clear political position as it is seen in the controversial and acclaimed mural «The man at the crossroads» of the Rockefeller Center of New Yorkwhich was destroyed and reinterpreted in the Palace of Fine Arts of the Mexico City in 1934; or its vibrant and mythical «Dream of a Sunday afternoon in the Alameda» of 1947.
We could write a whole thesis or several about its contribution in the Muralist movement As national art, however, the best way to meet such an emblematic artist is through his cultural legacy and his look in Mexico over time.
Old College of San Ildefonso
Let's start with him Old College of San Ildefonso cradle of the Mexican mural movement in whose walls the work of the maximum referents of this current culture that marked the course of the twentieth century in Mexico, artists such as Jean Charlot, Fernando Leal, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Ramón Alva, Fermín Revueltas and José Clemente Orozco. Here Diego Rivera He painted his first mural inside the Simón Bolívar amphitheater In 1922, performed with a technique based on emulsified copal resin with bee wax and a mixture of molten pigments with direct fire.
Just Sierra 16, Historic Center.
Diego Rivera Mural Museum
Artistic enclosure of great importance at the international level, is a space destined to disseminate and promote the rescue and preservation of artistic heritage, specially built for the most representative pictorial exhibition and pictorial exhibition of the artist. Opened in February 1988 within the framework of the Lucutum Anniversary of Diego Rivera, Inside you will find the iconic mural «Dream of a Sunday afternoon at the Central Alameda» of 1947, in addition to an important artistic and documentary collection, aimed at the artistic production of the muralist and its contemporaries through photographs, drawings and outstanding works.