Warka
10-13-2007, 04:27 PM
Info and images from:
http://www.dia.org/collections/AmericanArt/33.10.html
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/rivera.html
http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/muralists.htm
http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/detroit_robot.jpg
http://www.sapere.it/tca/minisite/scuola/insegnanti/arte_tuttomondo/imgs/murrivera.jpg
The Detroit Industry fresco cycle in Rivera Court is the finest example of Mexican muralist work in the United States; Rivera considered it the most successful work of his career. In 1932 when Rivera was well known in the United States as one of the leaders of the Mexican muralist movement, he was commissioned by Edsel Ford, president of the Arts Commission as well as of Ford Motor Company, and Dr. William Valentiner, director of the DIA, to create two murals for the museum in its Garden Court.
The north and south walls are devoted to three sets of images: the representation of the races that shape North American culture and make up its work force, the automobile industry, and the other industries of Detroit (medical, pharmaceutical, and chemical). At the bottom of the walls are small panels which depict the sequence of a day in the life of the workers at the Ford River Rouge plant. The central panel of the north wall represents important operations in the production and manufacture of the engine and transmission of the 1932 Ford V8. The major panel of the south wall is devoted to the production of the automobile’s exterior.
http://www.sapere.it/tca/minisite/scuola/insegnanti/arte_tuttomondo/imgs/murrivera.jpg
http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/detroit_robot.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1213/detroitindustrysouthnf1.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4153/detroitindustrynorthrg7.jpg
Diego Rivera signed a contract with the Founders Society of The Detroit Institute of Arts in June of 1932 for a large fresco project entitled Detroit Industry. The project was funded by Edsel Ford. The murals were dedicated in March of 1933 amidst some controversy, ranging from accusations of Communist content and sacrilegious portrayals to the unsuitability of industrial subject matter for a museum setting.
Rivera drew upon Cubism, pre-Columbian imagery, and his own interest in the machine aesthetic to create this remarkable series of frescos as a tribute to industrial advancement and the workers of Detroit. The Gallery's study portrays the production of the body of the 1932 Ford V-8 at the Company's Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. The drawing is inscribed "To the students of Professor Will S Taylor in Brown University. Diego Rivera. Mexico City, 1935." A smaller charcoal drawing of the same subject is in the Leeds City Art Gallery, England.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/images/rivera_detail1_sm.jpghttp://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/images/rivera_detail2_sm.jpg
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/images/rivera_mural_header_im.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no3.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no44.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no46.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no12.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/slide01l.gif
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no15.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no25.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no37.jpg
http://www.dia.org/collections/AmericanArt/33.10.html
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/rivera.html
http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/muralists.htm
http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/detroit_robot.jpg
http://www.sapere.it/tca/minisite/scuola/insegnanti/arte_tuttomondo/imgs/murrivera.jpg
The Detroit Industry fresco cycle in Rivera Court is the finest example of Mexican muralist work in the United States; Rivera considered it the most successful work of his career. In 1932 when Rivera was well known in the United States as one of the leaders of the Mexican muralist movement, he was commissioned by Edsel Ford, president of the Arts Commission as well as of Ford Motor Company, and Dr. William Valentiner, director of the DIA, to create two murals for the museum in its Garden Court.
The north and south walls are devoted to three sets of images: the representation of the races that shape North American culture and make up its work force, the automobile industry, and the other industries of Detroit (medical, pharmaceutical, and chemical). At the bottom of the walls are small panels which depict the sequence of a day in the life of the workers at the Ford River Rouge plant. The central panel of the north wall represents important operations in the production and manufacture of the engine and transmission of the 1932 Ford V8. The major panel of the south wall is devoted to the production of the automobile’s exterior.
http://www.sapere.it/tca/minisite/scuola/insegnanti/arte_tuttomondo/imgs/murrivera.jpg
http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/detroit_robot.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1213/detroitindustrysouthnf1.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4153/detroitindustrynorthrg7.jpg
Diego Rivera signed a contract with the Founders Society of The Detroit Institute of Arts in June of 1932 for a large fresco project entitled Detroit Industry. The project was funded by Edsel Ford. The murals were dedicated in March of 1933 amidst some controversy, ranging from accusations of Communist content and sacrilegious portrayals to the unsuitability of industrial subject matter for a museum setting.
Rivera drew upon Cubism, pre-Columbian imagery, and his own interest in the machine aesthetic to create this remarkable series of frescos as a tribute to industrial advancement and the workers of Detroit. The Gallery's study portrays the production of the body of the 1932 Ford V-8 at the Company's Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. The drawing is inscribed "To the students of Professor Will S Taylor in Brown University. Diego Rivera. Mexico City, 1935." A smaller charcoal drawing of the same subject is in the Leeds City Art Gallery, England.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/images/rivera_detail1_sm.jpghttp://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/images/rivera_detail2_sm.jpg
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/images/rivera_mural_header_im.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no3.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no44.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no46.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no12.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/slide01l.gif
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no15.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no25.jpg
http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/images/no37.jpg