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Man at the Crossroads was a mural by Diego Rivera.

The Rockefellers wanted to have a mural put on the wall in Rockefeller Center. Nelson Rockefeller wanted Henri Matisse or Pablo Picasso to do it because he favored their modern style, but neither was available. Diego Rivera was one of Nelson Rockefeller’s mother’s favorite artists and therefore was commissioned to create the huge mural. He was given a theme: New Frontiers. Rockefeller wanted the painting to make people pause and think.<ref name=”DiegoRiveraOrg”></ref>

The huge mural had many parts including: society women drinking alcohol, pictures of cells (sexually transmitted diseases), Leon Trotsky and finally the famous Lenin portion (depicting communism) which upset Rockefeller.<ref name=”DiegoRiveraOrg” /> The patron asked Rivera to change the face of Lenin to that of an unknown laborer’s face as was originally intended but the painter refused.

The work was paid for on May 22, 1933, and immediately draped. People protested but it remained covered until the early weeks of 1934, when it was smashed by workers and hauled away in wheelbarrows. Rivera responded by saying that it was “cultural vandalism.”

Rivera repainted the mural, though at a smaller scale, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City where it can be found today, renamed as Man, Controller of the Universe.<ref name=”DiegoRiveraOrg” /> At Rockefeller Center in its place is a mural with Abraham Lincoln as its focal point.

The Rockefeller-Rivera dispute is covered in the films Cradle Will Rock and Frida.

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