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The workers shown are laboring on automobile assembly lines, likely at the Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge Plant.

Rivera celebrated the dignity and effort of industrial labor, portraying the workers with strength and unity.

The style is Social Realism, characterized by its focus on working-class subjects and its detailed, lifelike forms.

Photograph of a detail of a 1933 Diego Rivera fresco at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press

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