| Liberation of Peon by Diego Rivera. This is one of eight "portable" fresco panels that Rivera made for his
retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1931.
Rivera based the panel on another of the same title that he painted in
1923 for the Ministry of Public Education building in Mexico City.During the revolution in Mexican society in the
1920s and 1930s, Diego Rivera was a leader among the core group of
artists dedicated to creating a radical public art. Monumental murals
for government buildings, designed for the public, were ideally suited
to these artists' socialist commitment to presenting a visual "people's
history" of Mexico. For his mural commissions, Rivera revived the
Italian Renaissance fresco tradition of applying pigments ground in
water to a moist lime plaster wall surface. |
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