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Grinning DictatorDiego Rivera
This oversized figure (1936) crowns the dictatorship panel in Carnival of Mexican Life. With gleaming teeth, vacant eyes, and puffed flesh, he embodies authoritarian vanity and brute optimism. Rivera fuses traits of Mussolini and Mexican strongmen to mock the theatrical self-image of power, inflated by nationalism and spectacle.
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