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Rivera was husband of artist [[Frida Kahlo]] and was an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico (In 1929, Rivera was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party). Still a [[socialist]], in 1933 he attempted to insert a portrait of [[Lenin]] into a mural commissioned by [[Nelson Rockefeller]], called "Man at the Crossroads". Later, Rockefeller ordered it to be painted over, due to some pro-[[socialist]] imagery in the work. <ref>[http://www.diego-rivera.org/rockefellercontroversy.html Rockefeller Controversy.]</ref> A duplicate original mural is now in [[Mexico City]]'s [[The Fine Arts Palace]] (although at a smaller scale), "Man, Controller of the Universe", 1934. .<ref>[http://gomexico.about.com/od/sights/ss/df_walking_9.htm Mexico City Museum of Fine Arts]</ref>
Rivera was husband of artist [[Frida Kahlo]] and was an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico (In 1929, Rivera was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party). Still a [[socialist]], in 1933 he attempted to insert a portrait of [[Lenin]] into a mural commissioned by [[Nelson Rockefeller]], called "Man at the Crossroads". Later, Rockefeller ordered it to be painted over, due to some pro-[[socialist]] imagery in the work. <ref>[http://www.diego-rivera.org/rockefellercontroversy.html Rockefeller Controversy.]</ref> A duplicate original mural is now in [[Mexico City]]'s [[The Fine Arts Palace]] (although at a smaller scale), "Man, Controller of the Universe", 1934. .<ref>[http://gomexico.about.com/od/sights/ss/df_walking_9.htm Mexico City Museum of Fine Arts]</ref>
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Rivera was considered perhaps the greatest Mexican painter of the 20th century. He felt that the large format of murals and their
accessibility to the public helped bring art and the themes of history and progress to the common people. [http://promise.berkeley.edu/lib/pdf/2008_winter_promise.pdf The University of California, Berkeley.]
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At the [[Detroit]] Institute of Arts, the museum's central courtyard is decorated with a series of 27 murals by the Mexican painter Diego Rivera that depict the automobile industry.
At the [[Detroit]] Institute of Arts, the museum's central courtyard is decorated with a series of 27 murals by the Mexican painter Diego Rivera that depict the automobile industry.