Murals today

Lets get reacquainted with Diego Rivera.

(i have problems with him. Frida is one of the most amazing artists in history...he was married to her, and he cheated on her. A LOT. She cheated on him back, but...it was obvious she loved him so, so much. But, she was SO amazing that she actually has her own RELIGION...to look for something beyond HER, and cheat on her with her own sister, and even PAINT her sister in an orgasmic state in one of his murals...well. Kind of makes me mad.)

But, even though I have personal problems with him, one can't overlook the amazing magnitude of his art. Everything has details, and deep, symbolic meaning within it.

But, he lived in a different time. Of budding communism, of political strife of a different kind, of new ideas and new industries.

So, my blog concerns my musings..how would some of his murals be different if he made them today?

I choose to focus on his mural "La Industria de Detroit". He has an Asian man on top, showing the already present threat from the east. And, the workers are busy, the factories are ornate and convoluted and busy.

I think that if he made this mural again, though, the Asian man would be encompassing the entire thing, maybe even destroying it. The factories would be empty, the workers would be workers no more.

I think if he saw what had become of Detroit now, he'd be amazed. Not saddened, but amazed. Maybe he'd head to Japan and make a new mural.