In the center, A worker controls a huge machine that seems to be an atom, An allegory to the potential to transform reality and advancement of science and technology at the time.
In an elliptical form of the orbits of the atom, the microscopic world appears with bacteria, viruses and cells impossible to see with the naked eye, while in the other the macroscosmos represented by planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae that give a world vision on universal scale appears.
On the left, Charles Darwin appears representing eugenics with a radriography of a human skull, as well as the police repression of a protest and an army armed with war airplanes, all as a criticism of capitalism; While on the right the opposite side appears: the Red Army, a movement of workers, the head of a decapitated sculpture and Marx, Trotsky and Lenin near the main scene.
This last gesture Disgust Nelson Rockefeller greatly And after a rusting negotiation, the tycoon decided to erase the mural of the New York building.
A year later, Diego Rivera He shaped the mural that had originally painted in New York, but this time in The Palace of Fine Arts of Mexico Citywhere it is possible to find it today.
Sleep of a Sunday afternoon at the Central Alameda
In 1947, Diego Rivera He painted one of his most reproduced and celebrated works. In «Dream of a Sunday afternoon at the Central Alameda», The artist painted himself as a boy by the hand of the catrina while taking a walk through the Alamedaa key point in the heart of Mexico City.
In this work characters such as his wife Frida Kahlo, José Guadalupe Posada, Hernán Cortés, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Benito Juárez, Maximiliano de Habsburg, Francisco I. Madero appear, in addition to politicians and artists of the time.