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künstler (in grau: assistent/in): Diego Rivera, Albert Barrows, Lucienne Bloch, Stephen Dimitroff, Ernest Halberstadt, Jack Hastings, Paul Meier Klienbordt, Antonio Sánchez Flores, Francis Jean Clarence West Plantagenet, Clifford Wight
titel: Man and Machine / Detroit Dynamic / Detroit Industry: (east wall) Allegory of earth's abundance: Cereals. Fruit of the orchard. Fruit and vegetable of MIchigan (2). Germ cell. — (west wall) Aviation. Peace dove. Maritime transport (interdependance of north and south). Predatory falcon. Steam. Electricity. — (north wall) Fabrication of toxic gaz bombs. The red and the black race (anthropomorphic figures). Vaccination. Cells suffocated by toxic gazes. Geological stratum. Viable human embryon. Manufacture of Ford V-8 motors and transmissions. — (south wall) Pharmaceutics. The white and the yellow race (anthromorphic figures). Commercial applications of chemistry. Surgery. Geological stratum. Cristals. Production of the car's exterior and final assembly
jahr: 1931–32 or 1932–33
adresse: Detroit Institute of Arts, inner courtyard, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit MI, USA
+: 435.18 m2. The frescoes were commissioned by the institutes art commission whose chairmain was Edsel Ford (1893—1943), president of Ford Motor Company, who had been convinced to purchase the paintings by William Valentiner (1880—1958), the director of the museum and mutual friend of Rivera and Helen Wills Moody (1905—98), whom Rivera depicted in his first San Franciscan mural in 1931. (from: Lozano, Coronel)
Rivera used his assistants to prepare the walls, but he painted everything himself. The mural is mainly a true fresco, but there are a couple of areas where he obviously went back and repainted the dried surface. It took him about 10 months to paint the whole thing, and he didn’t work everyday. (from: Beal, 2010)
