Source: WTL photograph© at the Special Exhibition of "Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910 - 1950," at the Philadelphia Art Museum, December 13, 2016.
Image: "Man, Controller of the Universe" (1934) by Diego Rivera (). Fresco on metal portable framework.
Comments: Here you see an image of the entire giant mural without the obstructions that now block the ability to see the work at one glance due to columns in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, where Rivera recreated it in 1934 after Nelson Rockefeller ordered it destroyed after he had commissioned it at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
For images of it as it exists now in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, see: => Diego Rivera, #31. Notice the distribution of the amazing profusion/abundance (horror vacui?) of elements in this giant mural, and notice the following elements: (a) the modern figure at the center with the X-shaped propeller-like wings behind him; (b) the distribution of three panels, on the left a Christian-style god-like statue with soldiers in gas masks in the upper left (World War I) and an attentive audience in the lower left; in the center the blond controlling modern man with a giant machine above him and a profusion of nature coming from the earth below; and leftist intellectuals on the bottom right and mesmerized masses in the upper right.
Humanities Question: In your view, how does this mural communicate the chaos, complexities, and challenges that Rivera saw during the first decades of the 20th century?