Tag: murals
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A battle between communism and capitalism on plaster. How did Diego Rivera’s destroyed mural set the ideological stage for American art and artist statements?
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I recently got lost in the wikipedia page on United States Post Office Murals. Artists in the Depression, funded by the United States government, created 1,371 murals in post offices. And wowee are they an insight into the 1930s. There’s a lot of genre paintings of agricultural scenes, industry, and very smoothed over history.