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Man at the Crossroads
''Man at the Crossroads'' was a fresco by Diego Rivera in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The painting was controversial because it included an image of Lenin and a Soviet Russian May Day parade. Despite protests from artists, Nelson Rockefeller ordered its destruction before it was completed.
Only black-and-white photographs exist of the original incomplete mural, taken when Rivera was forced to stop work on it. Using the photographs, Rivera repainted the composition in Mexico under the variant title ''Man, Controller of the Universe''.
The creation and destruction of the mural is dramatized in the films ''Cradle Will Rock'' (1999) and ''Frida'' (2002).
==Commission==
The Rockefellers wanted to have a mural put on the ground-floor wall of 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: "Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future."〔"My Art, My Life: An Autobiography". New York: Dover, 1991. p. 125. ISBN 0-486-26938-8〕 Rockefeller wanted the painting to make people pause and think.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Diego Rivera Prints )〕 Rivera was to be paid $21,000 for the work.〔Greenberg, Brian, ''et al'', ''Social History of the United States'', ABC-CLIO, 2008, p325.〕 He was officially commissioned by Todd-Robertson-Todd Engineering, the development agents for the building. The full commission envisaged three murals. ''Man at the Crossroads'' would be in the center. It would be flanked by ''The Frontier of Ethical Evolution'' and ''The Frontier of Material Development''. The central composition was intended to contrast Capitalism and Socialism.
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