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  • The outdoor temperature and outdoor garden setting were just right for the first multi-media showing of "Diego Rivera's Murals Under The Stars" outside of CA. Having been privileged to visit Diego Rivera's Museum in his native Mexico and close-up viewing of several of his famous political murals I felt it necessary to attend the PHX Art Museum event. The tickets were pricey (loss of a star) but when you see saw four laptops hooked up to a bank of projectors and a large screen with wide aspect ratio you could tell this was not going to be your usual slide show and indeed it was not. As the sky darkened one of the murals was tested in a four photo wide format requiring multiple image alignment. The final effect was totally different and in some respects more impressive than the IMAX format. Four separate images had to be aligned and projected which turned out to be a remarkable way to display the colorful murals Diego Rivera painted in San Francisco, Detroit, New York and Mexico in the 1930's and 1940's. The lecturer from the Latin American Latin Alliance started with early photos and paintings of Diego Rivera with some common and several uncommon paintings. When the first mural was projected it jumped out at you with color and detail that is hard to grasp unless you have seen them in person. In person it is easy to photograph a portion of a mural but to view an entire mural is only possible with your eyes. Many of Diego Rivera's life works were shown along with a crisp but all too short history otherwise we could have been there all night. I knew all night was a possibility based on the time it took a well known Mexican lecturer in Mexico to explain the intricate political history of a single mural on the ceiling and side walls of a government building. There were at least a half dozen murals including photos of the mural commissioned by the Rockefeller family but since destroyed due to its controversial political overtones of a painting of Lenin. The details in every mural is mind boggling and a complete story in itself. The Detroit mural of the history of the auto industry looked awesome and may or may not be a good reason to visit Detroit (?). In my opinion anyone with Mexican heritage and those without should make an effort to view one or more murals in his/her lifetime. The lecture lasted a little over an hour followed by appetizers, cash bar and the Mexican band Jaleo and singer Kiara Duran for another hour or so. The entertainment was outstanding and including elaborate dance steps by the Duran family including Kiara's mother and her son. All in all an entertaining evening under the stars with just the right temperature before the real heat begins as it seems to do every year I have lived in AZ. I keep hoping for an ocean breeze in July but it never seems to happen.
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