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Drawn by a Mexican, contemporary of Diego Rivera and every bit as radical, t paintings link an old Mexican legend will up-to-date propaganda. The first pan show in screaming colors the story the white god of ancient Mexico who w last seen sinking into the sea says. "I shall return." The next panels Cotes, coming from the sea as the turned white god, which makes all t people very happy. That is until begins to rape and plunder...
...peace meetings, Communism trotted out its shiniest fronts and most attractive faces: artists like Pablo Picasso, Rockwell Kent and Diego Rivera, authors like Howard Fast, clergy like Britain's Dr. Hewlett ("Red Dean of Canterbury") Johnson, and Metropolitan Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...celebrate the Lerma River project, ending Mexico City's immemorial water shortage, the Mexican government commissioned Diego Rivera to decorate the handsome new building through which the water would enter the capital. Rivera covered the inside of the fancy distribution chamber with sumptuous murals, some of them under water but shielded from water damage by mixing polystyrene with his pigments and coating the whole with transparent rubber (TIME, June 4). For the outside, he designed a large pool (see cut), in which reclines a giant sculpture of Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god. Rivera calls this "the first work...
...knows just about as much about gunpowder as he does about paint, and is almost as much at home in a cell as in a studio (he has been jailed 70 times). Also, he wields a big brush, ranks second in Mexican art only to his friendly enemy Diego Rivera. Last week Siqueiros' latest mural was unveiled in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts, and it made a bang, as usual...
...brash, ingenious, emphatic and go-getting. It has given to the world Charles ("Boss") Kettering, genius of production, Joe Louis, onetime genius of the clout, and Edgar A. Guest, genius of the jingle. One of its showpieces is its Institute of Arts, containing Diego Rivera's monstrous panorama of machines, gears and allegorical nudes. But the acme of its important art is the elegant chrome design of the automobile radiator...