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Compared To John Rockefeller's Thirty Are Better Than One
In the discussion on, Thirty Are Better Than One, I mentioned that I feel that I am a person that keeps an open mind but that I do have limitations to what is acceptable in expressing art. When it comes to Diego Rivera's, Man at the Crossroads, I agree with Rockefeller in destroying this piece. Diego presented to John Rockefeller that the mural he was going to create for Rockefeller's building, Radio Corporations Art Building, would entail social, political, industrial, and scientific possibilities of the twentieth century. Rockefeller did approve Diego's mural. However, Rockefeller did not approve Rivera's tie in of communism. In the painting Rivera included a scene of a giant May Day Portrait of Lenin leading the demonstration. (A Russian
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