Artwork Replica Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, 1948 by Diego Rivera (Inspired By) (1886-1957, Mexico) | WahooArt.com

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"Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park"

Diego Rivera (i) - Frescoes - 1948
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park is an enormous mural that contains 400 characters from Mexican history. The mural is a Surreal dream, a collection of events in a single space, with no adherence to laws of time and space. The characters are not interacting but neither are they separate, they are like pieces of a collage of a tumultuous history that is told chronologically from left to right. On the left we see the Spaniard conquest of Mexico, it is a dark dream, a struggle between the indigineous people and the colonizers and victims of the Inquisition. In the centre is the fight for independence and the Mexican Revolution where the artist Diego Rivera places himself in front of his wife, Frida Kahlo who holds his shoulder protectively. In the absolute centre is the character of La Catrina, a nickname of upper class women who dress in European clothing, who was first depicted as a skeleton by Posada, and adapted into this painting. La Catrina unites Rivera and Posada, linking her arm to each person. On the right are depictions of modern achievements. Each section of the mural has a copious amount of history laden within it, from artists, writers, revolutionists to conquerors, dictators, oppressors. It reminds the viewer that the history we are taught is often edited and that the present we see now is a cumulation of efforts made by the participation of Mexicans from all parts of society throughout the course of four centuries.






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