Google celebrating Diego Rivera's 125th Birthday

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Thank you to Starry for posting this elsewhere this morning - lovely to see Google honoring one of the 20th century's best artists (and he was a communist too of course)

“SINCE ART IS ESSENTIAL for human life, it can’t just belong to the few.”

So demanded Diego Rivera, the leading Mexican muralist whose creative ambitions swept across the 20th century as large as his class-spanning public art. And Thursday, Google does what it can to spotlight Rivera’s essential art for an audience of millions.

Today, on the 125th anniversary of Rivera’s birth, Google’s homepage ”Doodle” celebrates the artist with a mural rich not only in color, but also in biographical detail.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/diego-rivera-google-doodle-logo-celebrates-the-legendary-mexican-muralist-whose-career-was-a-larger-than-life/2011/12/07/gIQAWca8dO_blog.html

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1. A fellow commie-pinko, ........Workers of the World UNITE !

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2. Oo! You posted it. Thank you!

The next time I get to Mexico City, I want to spend the whole time finding more murals. I did get to see my favorite, the one Rockefeller painted over because it had Lenin in it. Rivera repainted it in the Palacio Des Belles Artes and all the hair went up on my arms when I got close to it:



Unfortunately you can't take pictures in most museums there, so I only have the memories and photos I've found online. I did get this one little picture at Casa Azul of Diego. The little drawing of a frog was his signature, to make fun of his looks:

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3. Was it you or Starry who posted those photos

from a trip to Mexico on that other board? I'd like to see them again. They were SO cool. I think it was you.

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4. It was

Starry - she went a few months ago