Are you serious?
Could you study in a place with this type of wildfunkypsychedelic and exquisitely gorgeous art on the damn walls?
Some info on this wonderful art located in a library in Mexico City from Atlas Obscura
On paper, the Biblioteca Miguel Lerdo de Tejada is a resource for thousands of economic records and newspapers of yesteryear. But step inside this research library tucked away in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico, and you’ll find the unassuming home of psychedelic frescoes depicting revolutionary scenes throughout history.
The Russian-Mexican artist Vladimir Víktorovich Kibálchich Rusakov (aka Vlady) painted the 21,527 square feet (2,000 square meters) of murals that cover the walls of this former 18th-century baroque church and theater. Entitled La Revolución y los Elementos, the murals are arguably some of the most lysergic representations of revolution ever committed to art, and take the muralismo movement to a completely different dimension.
Here’s some background on the artist from Wikipedia
Vlady was born on June 14, 1920 in Saint Petersburg, Russia (then called Petrograd), during the Russian Revolution. He was the son of writer and photographer Victor Napoleon Lvovich Kibalchich, better known as Victor Serge, and Liuba Rusakova.[1][2]
Serge was secretary to Leon Trotsky .[1] When Stalin took over the Soviet Union, his family was exiled to Kazakhstan, where the family lived in extreme poverty.[2] In 1933, his mother succumbed to mental illness due to the stress of their situation and was committed to the psychiatric clinic of the Red Army. Vlady accompanied his father to the gulag. His schooling at this time was from Bolshevik professors allied with Lenin deported by Stalin .[3]
Due to pressure from writers and intellectuals such as André Malraux, the family was allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1936.[2] They lived for a few months in Belgium before moving to France. At this time, Vlady became militantly in favor of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, he did not go and join the war because of his age.[3] His time in Belgium and France gave him his first experience with modern art, which inspired him to become a painter.[2] In Paris, Vlady began to study in the workshops of various painters there such as Victor Brauner, Wifredo Lam, Joseph Lacasse, André Masson and Aristide Maillol. He continued to do so until 1941, when the imminent German invasion of France forced the family to move again as refugees.[2]
When a photograph promoting this Atlas Obscura story showed up on Twitter, I was immediately reminded that I have not been to the Art Institute of Chicago or any other museum in quite awhile...as gorgeous and iconic as Mr. Rusakov’s murals look on the computer screen and/or the printed page, that is not even comparable to actually seeing the artwork in person.
That’s even be more true of La Revolución y los Elementos simply because the artwork can be witnessed in its original context.
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I wish that I could draw...or paint...or sculpt...can’t do any of that...and I’ve tried...I used to get C’s and D’s in art classes throughout my school life...I love studying art history and looking at visual art, though.
People say that I can write and...I mean, I guess...but I would trade in whatever ability that I have in writing for the ability to do visual art.
Gotta make due with what The Universe seems to have given me.
But...I think that a trip to Mexico City simply to see La Revolución y los Elementos with my own (4) eyes just went on my Bucket List.
I am in awe.
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