Tag: Diego Rivera
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01 Work, The Art of War, Diego Rivera’s The Uprising, 1931, with footnotes
You see the men wearing workers’ overalls and the women wearing modern day short dresses and short hair cuts and even earrings. It’s an urban industrial scene, and it’s a workers’ demonstration. In the very center of the composition is a woman actively asserting herself against the forces of oppression. She is pushing back the…