Source: WTL research files.
Mural: "Embrace and Peasants" (1923) in the Court of Labor in the Secretaría de Educación Pública, Mexico City. Fresco with nopal juice.
Comments: For brief comments on the technique used at the beginning of his mural project at the Ministry of Public Education, see: => Self-Portraits #3. The object of the murals in this national ministry was to give an overview of the resurgence of the Mexican people following their supposed victory in the Mexican Revolution. Rivera and other Mexican intellectuals were fully conscious of the need to connect twentieth-century Mexican culture and humanities with their roots in the Mexican peoples and their pasts. This included the rebirth of mural art. This is the site of Rivera's second mural project. An art critic says this about these murals: Rivera's work here is "a tour de force as an architectural and pedagogical decorative program and the primary element of a three-part artistic source from which the Mexican Mural Renaissance derived much of its formal character and its humanistic-nationalistic direction." Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts, Diego Rivera; a Retrospective. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986, p. 242.
Question: How does this mural surrounding a door in the Court of Labor depict work, labor?