For example, portraiture is inherently an individualist medium, differing greatly from collectivist murals. Moreover, cubism is a European invention and the subject matter is devoid of the political flare that brightens Rivera’s social-realist murals. Though these claims ring true, the progress and alignment with the politics of Rivera’s later years evident in Portrait of Marevna are parallels of sublety. Portrait of Marevna does not fully subscribe to the criteria laid out by the El Machete manifesto, however, it provides the groundwork for it to blossom into something as prosperous and promising as the calla lilies in Rivera’s Flower
For example, portraiture is inherently an individualist medium, differing greatly from collectivist murals. Moreover, cubism is a European invention and the subject matter is devoid of the political flare that brightens Rivera’s social-realist murals. Though these claims ring true, the progress and alignment with the politics of Rivera’s later years evident in Portrait of Marevna are parallels of sublety. Portrait of Marevna does not fully subscribe to the criteria laid out by the El Machete manifesto, however, it provides the groundwork for it to blossom into something as prosperous and promising as the calla lilies in Rivera’s Flower