Sunday, December 28, 2014

Mexican painter Diego Garcia didn't please Rockefeller

The first five photos show sections of the mural commissioned by John D. Rockefeller for the main building in New York's Rockefeller Center.

 Garcia was opposed to much of what Rockefeller represented, being anti-capitalist, pro-worker, and atheist.
The mural,  painted in the early 1930's during the worst of the Great Depression,  showed capitalism taking over and destroying the world by using war and government forces.

One section depicts Rockefeller holding a martini glass during a society function while New York police beat protesting workers.





After Rockefeller had the mural destroyed, Garcia recreated it in México City's Palacio del Bellas Artes.

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