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This is the left panel of "From Conquest to 1930" showing Karl Marx pointing the way from Capitalist anarchy and pollution to the Communist utopia. Rivera got it exactly backwards. At bottom center you can see his representation of Frida Kahlo, "a Mexican painter of the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining realism and symbolism, an active Communist supporter, and wife of the Mexican muralist and cubist painter Diego Rivera. Kahlo was noted for her unconventional appearance, including pronounced eyebrows (unibrow) and a thin moustache which she did not remove, and her choice of flamboyantly styled clothing." Quote from Wikipedia |