This painting by Diego Rivera depicts a flower festival held on Good Friday in the town of Santa Anita www.moma.org/collection/w... - ThreadSky

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mlobelart.bsky.social • 27 days ago

This painting by Diego Rivera depicts a flower festival held on Good Friday in the town of Santa Anita https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78492?classifications=any&date_begin=Pre-1850&date_end=2025&include_uncataloged_works=false&on_view=false&q=%22good+friday%22&recent_acquisitions=false&with_images=true

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mlobelart.bsky.social•27 days ago

Relatedly, this stunning painting by Rivera of a vendor selling lily flowers, from 1942

peterhuestis.bsky.social•27 days ago

I seem to remember that being at Norton Simon?

mlobelart.bsky.social•27 days ago

Perhaps the Norton Simon has something related, but I took that picture at the Foro Valparaiso in downtown Mexico City, where the Citibanamex collection is displayed. Corresponding wall label:

peterhuestis.bsky.social•27 days ago

The two paintings are so similar that one wonders if they were pendants.

peterhuestis.bsky.social•27 days ago

Turns out no! This is the Norton Simon one:

mlobelart.bsky.social•27 days ago

Looks like the Norton Simon one was painted a year earlier; would love to see those two together https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/detail/P.1980.2.3

peterhuestis.bsky.social•27 days ago

After you get over the similarities, you start to notice the differences!

mlobelart.bsky.social•27 days ago

Like this in the Norton Simon picture, which seems to be missing from the Foro Valparaiso version

dicklavender.bsky.social•27 days ago

Love Diego Rivera! ❤️

mlobelart.bsky.social•27 days ago

Of possible interest then: https://www.artforum.com/columns/the-unnerving-resonance-of-diego-riveras-vaccination-251817/

daveooo.bsky.social•27 days ago

I grew up looking at this at the DIA. Even back then it seemed odd to me that the vaccination mural bothered some people.

nexus-prime.bsky.social•27 days ago

"Naive Painting" can be so beautiful.

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