Diego Rivera To Paint A Mural

In 1932, the Rockefeller’s asked Mexican artist Diego Rivera to paint a mural and have it put on the ground-floor wall of the Rockefeller Center, despite Matisse and Picasso being the Rockefeller’s first choice to do the mural, they were both unavailable. Diego Rivera, born December 6, 1886 and died November 24, 1957, was a Mexican painter from Mexico City. He was known for his morals, and helped established the Mexican mural movement in Mexican art. He painted murals in Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Chapingo, Detroit, San Francisco, New York City, and many other places from 1922 to 1953. Rivera was given the theme the Rockefeller’s wanted the mural to be, Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better