Diego Rivera, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park
Speaker: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
Diego Rivera, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, 1947, originally in the Hotel del Prado, Mexico City, 4.8 x 15 m, panorama or about 16 ft high and 50 ft long. Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Mexico City
Diego Rivera's mural "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park" is filled with over a hundred figures from Mexico's history, spanning 400 years. This mural used to be inside the Hotel del Prado before the space was destroyed by an earthquake. Miraculously, the mural survived and was relocated to its present-day museum location. Learn more about the many figures in the mural and why it is considered dream-like.
Detail: Diego Rivera, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, 1947, originally in the Hotel del Prado, Mexico City, 4.8 x 15 m, panorama or about 16 ft high and 50 ft long. Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City. Photo: © Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
Video chapters
0:00 Introduction to Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park
0:36 A monumental fresco for the Hotel del Prado
1:58 How time works
2:25 The colonial era
4:28 Post-independence and the Porfiriato
9:00 The modern moment and the Mexican Revolution
10:45 Los tres grandes and muralism
11:48 Why a dream?
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