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Art Viewing Adventures: Diego Rivera: Art for a New Age (Virtual)
Mon March 22, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Popular independent art lecturer Avril Angevine will join Rodney Paul to discuss the life and art of Mexican artist Diego Rivera. In his American murals, Rivera achieved an incongruous synthesis between a reverence for the indigenous cultures of his native land and an appreciation of the American industrial modernity of Detroit’s automobile factories. Overshadowed today by his wife Frida Kahlo, Rivera was a prodigious talent whose commitment to art as a political act resonates today. He didn’t believe in God, he said, but he did believe in Picasso.
Rivera and Kahlo spent significant time in the Bay Area, and his Pan American Unity mural was created here in 1940 and has been displayed for many years at City College. It will be moved to SFMOMA soon, where it will be on view in a free section of the museum before being moved back to a newly renovated site at the College.
Image: Diego Rivera, Pan American Unity Mural
HOW TO JOIN THE CLASS:
To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll-free) or 669-900-6833 (local).
Enter Meeting ID: 865 6747 4200, then press # twice.
To join with video, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/86567474200 to register and join. Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start.
To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time.
