Man At The Crossroads Analysis

In the video “Man at The Crossroads” produce by James Ayala and John Riveaux they talked about the life of Diego Rivera. Diego Rivera was born in December 8 1886 in Mexico. He sought out art throughout his life he started drawing as a little kid. He then went to San Carlos Academy of fine Arts in his teens, and then traveled to Europe to live and work on his art. First mural he created was in 1922 in the boulevard amphitheater at the university of Mexico was the first important mural of the 20th century. His later works he used historical social and political theme to how the life of Mexican people. In the 1930 and 40s he traveled to the united states where he was commissioned to paint several murals in 1932 at the height of the great depression. Rivera arrived in the city of Detroit to paint a mural that was dedicated to the American car plant workers it was finished in 1933. During this time Rivera’s radical political and independent nature had begun to draw criticism. He was a known communist and a member of the Mexican communist party. He was later hired by the Rockefellers to paint a mural on the ground floor wall of Rockefeller center in New York City. It however didn’t go so well. The theme of the painting, man at the cross road was to depict the social
This video shows different photos and short footage of Frida Kahlo. Most of the footage is of her and Diego. Being affectionate and loving. It’s a look in her everyday life with him will at least the good side of it. They also show when Frida was gravely ill and was carried when she was still lying on her bed to a party. They shoot her painting and take photos of her with her paintings. Also of her in her wheel chair painting. They show her last days as she becomes sicker and sicker. They end the video with a shot pf her with a woman who she puts her hands on her shoulder and guides her inside the house and she closes the doors and the video ends