History & The Arts
Art and the Mexican Revolution
...change, painted in what David Craven has described as a ‘post-heroic’ way (Craven, 2002, p. 55). A significant exception to this emphasis upon the non-hierarchical is the depiction of the revolutionary peasant leader Zapata, who appears twice in the central wall. Below the upper register of these five bays, Rivera painted a kaleidoscopic arrangement of scenes and...