Painter's Vision
- PAINTER'S VISION - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille Board. It appears in the paperback, "Dragonlance Tales No.3".
Art is an important part of our existence, it is part of almost everything we do, we even use it to reveal our "souls". . .
When Rockefeller Center was being built in NY City, Nelson Rockefeller was in charge of decorations. He decided to commission the world-famous artist, Diego Rivera to paint a huge 63 x 17 foot fresco in the voluminous main lobby that would reflect the inspiring theme, "Man at the Crossroads: Looking forward with high hopes and a vision toward a better future".
But Nelson was grievously ignorant of Diego Rivera's world view, and though Rivera was considered a major figure in 20th century art, he was also known internationally for his outspoken communist propaganda. And so, contrary to Rockefeller's inspiring theme, Rivera began the huge fresco painting the ugly rich wildly celebrating in a nightclub, lots of unemployed workers being clubbed by police, and Lenin shaking hands with a Russian laborer and a black American worker . . .
When Rockefeller heard that the mural was near completion he went to see it, and was horrified by what he saw. He immediately stopped Rivera and had the painting scraped off the lobby wall! - And yet, not long after this incident Mr. Nelson Rockefeller was interviewed, and during the interview he said, "Art is probably one of the few areas left where there is complete freedom." - Unless, of course he doesn't like it!
That episode between Rockefeller and Rivera belongs as part of Aesop's Fables, there is a lesson to be learned from it . . . though I doubt that anyone ever did.
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