Pomegranate 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults, Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry, Matte Finish, Snug Fit

Pomegranate 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults, Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry, Matte Finish, Snug Fit image
ISBN-10:

0764942174

ISBN-13:

9780764942174

Author(s): POMEGRANATE
Released: Aug 15, 2007
Publisher: Pomegranate
Format: Toy, 0 pages
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Jigsaw puzzle featuring Detroit Industry, North Wall (detail), 1932-1933, mural by Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957). Published with the Detroit Institute of Arts.After years of rubbing elbows with the artistic avant-garde of Montparnasse, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) returned to Mexico soon after a very different encounter with the Renaissance masters Giotto and Michelangelo. His commitment to Mexico's recently completed revolution and his new interest in fresco painting led Rivera to participate in a program of public works, murals on broad expanses of wall that anyone could visit, painted in a straightforward style indebted to pre-Columbian and folk art.Later, a mural painted for San Francisco's Pacific Stock Exchange attracted the attention of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which commissioned him to paint the walls of its classical Garden Court. His theme, the manufacture of automobiles through human labor, pleased Edsel Ford, the president of the Ford Motor Company, who agreed to fun

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