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Diego Rivera's murals in the Alameda Museum
The mural "Sueño de una tarde dominical en Alameda Central" (Dream of a sunday afternoon in The Alameda) was originally made by Rivera for a very important hotel in the Historical Center of the city of Mexico, the Hotel del Prado (destroyed in the 1985 earthquakes) and at the Alameda in the historic centre, created specially to preserve the mural, considered one of the most well known of the Mexican Muralismo.
Diego Rivera represented as the main figure the Calavera Catrina (the death), very elegantly dressed, with the serpent of feather -essential mythical representation of the pre-Hispanic culture of Mexico-. The Catrina is a work originally created by Jose Guadalupe Posada, artist that emphasizes in the Mexican creation of aims of the XIXth century and of the beginning of the XXth; he is taking the arm of the Catrina. Rivera takes the Catrina and Posada as the main caractheres of the work, because it is dedicated to this great artist, considered the more important Mexican engraver and Rivera always recognized him like his great inspiration.
We can also see "the young Diego", thus self-portraited and at his back Frida Kahlo, the extraordinary painter, wife of Rivera until its death in 1954.
Templo Mayor
Facade of the Sagrada Familia church
The Old Basilica de Guadalupe
Another demonstration in Mexico City.
