Description
Juan O’Gorman was once a not just a painter and a muralist, a mosaic artist, a critic, and a professor; he was once also an architect and a revolutionary, in all probability most famous for his close friendship with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and because the designer in their two-house studio in Mexico City—Casa Azul—linked by a symbolic bridge.
To celebrate San Antonio’s HemisFair Exposition in 1968, O’Gorman created the large mosaic mural that still adorns one wall of the Lila Cockrell Theater along San Antonio’s famed River Walk. The five-ton mosaic measured 2,600 square feet and consisted of 540 numbered panels, each and every weighing about 90 pounds.