Diego Rivera Gallery
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The Diego Rivera Gallery is a student-directed exhibition space for work by San Francisco Art Institute
students. The gallery provides an opportunity for BFA, MFA and Post-Baccalaureate students to present their work in a gallery setting, to use the space for large-scale installations, or to experiment with artistic concepts and concerns in a public venue. Exhibitions change weekly and open on Tuesdays. About 40 shows per year are scheduled and close to 200 students exhibit each year.
In ex-faculty member Charles Boone
's time at SFAI, he attended nearly every opening reception.
Showing the Building of a City (1931) is one of four murals in the Bay Area painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera
(1886–1957).
Rivera's mural seems to be painted for and about a working class audience.
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
students. The gallery provides an opportunity for BFA, MFA and Post-Baccalaureate students to present their work in a gallery setting, to use the space for large-scale installations, or to experiment with artistic concepts and concerns in a public venue. Exhibitions change weekly and open on Tuesdays. About 40 shows per year are scheduled and close to 200 students exhibit each year.
In ex-faculty member Charles Boone
Charles Boone (composer)
Charles Boone is an American composer of contemporary classical music, living in San Francisco.-Biography:Boone studied first at the University of Southern California and later with composers Ernst Krenek and Adolph Weiss in Los Angeles...
's time at SFAI, he attended nearly every opening reception.
The Mural
The Making of a FrescoFresco
Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...
Showing the Building of a City (1931) is one of four murals in the Bay Area painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
(1886–1957).
Rivera's mural seems to be painted for and about a working class audience.